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Chart taken from DHS FY 2009 Overview: Emergency Operations Center (EOC) and Driver's License Security Grant Programs (PDF, 5 pages - 81 KB)

State DMV's

• Helps Prevent Identity Theft
• Reduces Underage Drinking and Driving
• Keeps Drunk Drivers off the Road
• Combats Welfare and Medicare Theft
• Reduces Voter Fraud
• Cracks Down on Dead Beat Dads
• Helps Protect Americans from Terrorist Attacks

Nevada has now posted a clear description of what REAL ID entails.

http://www.dmvnv.com/realid/index.htm

As part of its education and advocacy efforts, the Coalition for a Secure Driver's License monitors efforts by Congress, state government officials and their professional organizations to pass legislation providing for driver's licenses, non-driver's identification and shared databases of holders of such identification.

Fact and Fiction regarding REAL ID; the separate components often misunderstood. Includes general FAQs about REAL ID, as well as information about federal funding and the Department of Homeland Security's responses and press releases addressing Public Law 109-13.