April 1, 2008

DHS Warns Maine That It Must Agree to REAL ID Requirements

Maine has until Wednesday to agree to driver's licenses changes demanded by the federal government or face the consequences of having Maine driver's licenses rejected as valid identification at the nation's airports come May 11. DHS all but told the state Monday that it was the country's "weakest link" and that the state needed to change its licensing ways or face the fed's wrath. Maine is now the lone state not to have been given an extension to long-delayed Real ID regulations, after three fellow protesting states -- Montana, New Hampshire and South Carolina -- got their extensions in the last two weeks despite not pledging allegiance to Real ID.

DHS Issues Maine Ultimatum on Real ID, Wired News, April 1, 2008.