Good Evening, From roughly 1985 to ~1997, I was a resident of Missouri (USA). Now, Missouri may well be a poster child for backwater living, but they had an unusual thing to recommend them: they understood that a "Driver's License" was somthing you got to prove you knew how to drive a car, rather than something you got to drink beer and vote. Presumable due to this revelation, Missouri did not actually *require* either a photo or a social security number for the issuance of a driver's license. Anyone who had objection to the social security number was given a different encoded "license number", and anyone who objected to the photo had a red box in the corner with the words "PHOTO NOT REQUIRED" emblazoned across it - you needed only to fill out the form which described the basis of your objection(s). Even better was the State of New York, up until ~1983: no photo on any license. Just a piece of paper (no plastic at all) that said you knew enough to drive. Proving that the license belonged to *you*, and not someone else, required actual *ID*! It's time we get back to the reality standard on these... -- Yours, J.A. Terranson sysadmin@mfn.org