Nice. So my 22 year old daughter who just moved back home after graduation college would be unable to register to vote as she has no proof of residency and did not have to file IRS forms last 2 years in school.
My elderly mother would be ineligble to register to vote as all of the proof of residency bills are in my father's name.
A family with adult children who just moved back in with their parents due to the bad economy will be ineligible to register to vote in their new residence as they have no utilities or bank statements or lease agreements. Ditto on large, extended families.
There is vote fraud happening but it's not by people voting twice or in the wrong precinct.
So is the next RealID law going to require a land deed as proof of residency?

Thanks for looking into this, Scott. Voting is what makes this place what it is (the good and the not so good :-) and having anyone not allowed to voice their opinion at the polls when they are eligible to do so undermines the legitimacy of those who set the rules into law.

So this happened before Deal was forced to resign from Congress?

No public hearings were held on this bill in the U.S. house or Senate, it was simply added as an amendment without any discussion at all, In addition to the burdonsome requirements, the state is not staffing centers, In Cumming, for example, there was a 3 hour wait even before July 1 since only 3 of the 12 windows were even open. It would be a simple matter to allow for advance reservations every 10 minutes apart and even charge a small convenience fee for the privilege. How many people have to take off from work without pay to simply renew a license. Anyone at the state DDS who had anything to do with this should be fired, but of course no one in government ever loses their jobs no matter how incompetent they are.

This is all part of what I call the Great Vote Suppression Movement of 2012. 28 or 29 states have now enacted laws that make voting more and more difficult, especially for low-income and elderly people with limited mobility. Making it more difficult to obtain that proof-of-identity (eg, a Driver's License) dovetails nicely. (Requiring picture ID is a solution to a non-existent problem -"voter fraud") Thank your anti-democracy, anti-American Republican legislators for this. These people don't want you to vote, unless they're pretty confident you're going to vote for them. For the same reason, they came up with an incredibly contorted redistricting Gerrymander that will result in most white Democratic legislators in Georgia being forced out of office - including Scott Holcomb, our great state Rep and author of this article ( Mr. Rep, please correct me if something has changed on this.) Your Republican leaders at both the state and Federal levels want a one-party system (even 2 is too many for them), and they've taken huge strides toward getting it done. It's a dark day in the USA.

Good point, Jimmy.

In this case, that is true, It was George Bush who signed the Real ID bill in 2005, and the state of Georgia legislators went along with it.

I jsut spent 5 1/2 hours there today to renew my license, which itself was a 5 minute procedure. Luckily I'm not working now, but if I had to take a personal day off to take care of this MESS the state's created I would be even angrier!

Part of the long delays at the DMV is a result of people who can't or won't follow instructions. Really don't want those people driving or voting. DMV needs to weed them out faster.