Some misc first: Drudge says he's not waiting for the polls to close, he's posting exit-poll results as soon as they come in. I once worked for NES [News Election Service] the combined effort of CBS/NBC/ABC etc to receive exit-poll info from around the nation. Job title was "Error Editor". Anyone have any current info on them? ---- Clinton has vetoed the new secrets bill. ---- The Texas license uses your SS#. http://www.msnbc.com/news/466882.asp [snipped] CHANGED DRIVER'S LICENSE AT ISSUE Sources told MSNBC.com's Jeannette Walls that Bush associates had been worried for several years about his arrest record and had hoped that because it was in Maine, and not Texas, it wouldn't surface. The sources said Bush took one step to keep it under wraps in March 1995, when his driver's license number was changed. Walls first reported this in August 1999 in The Scoop, an MSNBC.com column. At the time, the sources told Walls that Bush got his license number changed because he was worried about an arrest record surfacing. "He has an arrest record that has to do with drinking," a source said then. "He's worried it will come out, but his handlers keep assuring him it won't." The allegation was not disclosed by MSNBC.com at the time because the arrest could not be confirmed. Also in August 1999, the Texas Department of Motor Vehicles told MSNBC.com that changing one's driver's license number was "highly unusual" and that it is done only when the holder of the license can prove that someone is using the license number for illegal activities. Repeated calls to Bush's camp back at the time were unanswered, until a spokeswoman for Bush said the motor vehicle agency would have an additional comment. An agency spokesman then called MSNBC and said Bush's license number was changed for "security measures." He declined to comment further. A spokesman for Bush left a phone message Friday saying license numbers are changed "as a matter of course and courtesy for statewide elected officials. It's offered to all statewide elected officials in Texas." A spokesman for the governor's office in Texas reiterated this and said other governors were also given the option of changing their license numbers.