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REAL ID Will Create Nightmare DMV Lines

Starting in 2008, all 22 million licensed California drivers will be required to go in person to a DMV office and prove their identity and address with three different documents before getting a new, federally approved state license.

The sheer size and scope of that task  —  required by a federal law passed in the wake of Sept. 11  —  already has the state Department of Motor Vehicles worried about lines that would make current complaints about the agency’s notoriously slow service seem trivial. Click here.

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