Maine lawmakers hear proposal to have state stop issuing Real ID cards

Maine lawmakers hear proposal to have state stop issuing Real ID cards

Supporters of the effort voiced concerns about privacy, but Secretary of State Shenna Bellows said the change would make Maine the only state not to offer the federally compliant ID.

'An enormous waste of time and resources.' Farcical Real ID regulations swamp Secretary of State's office

While much of the country reels from the federal government being torn apart — jobs slashed, agencies gutted, funding withdrawn — Alexi Giannoulias is facing the opposite problem: a mass of new federal requirements crushing his agency."I haven't been this frustrated, professionally, maybe ever," the Illinois secretary of state said Monday. "Because we've done so much work to to create efficiencies and they're all being unraveled by this unpreced…