I just renewed by DL for 5 years today. Does this new requirement mean that in 2017 I will have to prove I was born and am a citizen of the US? I don't have a passport. This sounds a bit over the top for someone who has had a vaild license all over the US since 1958. There has to be another way to control illegals in the US!!!

hahahahaha Karma.

It is because of the law that you all voted in to "stop illegal immigrants". You were all for it when it was sold to you that way by conservative talk radio and t.v.. The reality is that this law did very little to hinder immigrants, especially illegal immigrants. Basically all it accomplished was to inconvenience everyone else with all these stupid requirements. Ask anyone who has to deal with all the new regulations when applying for a business license. Good work everyone. Way to think it through before voting. Maybe next time we'll look beyond the headlines and behind the propaganda used to pass these laws.

These requirements were put in place to comply with changes to the ID requirements by the federal government in 2005 under the Bush administration. The Georgia state legislature has put these requirements in place without considering the imposition and difficulty that many Georgia citizens will have complying with the requirements. This is a case of unintended consequences that marks so many of the conservative legislature’s actions and fear based thinking. They need to take a step back and come up with systems that will make complying with the requirements more reasonable.

There are no unintended consequences here. This is all part of our Republican state government's effort to suppress minority voting. They are rigging the 2012 election 6 ways to Sunday.

When the Real ID Act of 2005 was enacted it was decried by a wide range of politicians, from Ron Paul to Mike Huckabee, as a push by the Department of Homeland Security's towards a national ID card. Many states, including Georgia, enacted their own legislation to prevent the implementation of Real ID. The Georgia law cited an estimated cost to Georgians of $11 billion dollars to fully implement the act.

So why the change of heart now? Did we suddenly find $11 billion dollars in the state budget to support a federal statute that just 5 years ago we were vehemently opposed to? Or did our Republican state government simply find an easy way to suppress the minority vote? These questions should be asked by every freedom loving Georgian. The DOJ needs to be up to it's eyeballs in this to protect the right to vote for every American citizen.

http://www1.legis.ga.gov/legis/2007_08/fulltext/sb5.htm

So tell me why the license I have that I had to scan my fingerprint for isn't good enough to prove who I am when it's time to renew? My fingerprint was put into the bar-code on the back of my current license. I thought that was supposed to help somehow. Why isn't that enough proof of who I am?

Thank goodness I don't have to renew until 2018 so hopefully the state will have hired enough people to get the wait times down under an hour. I'll have to renew my passport before I renew my drivers license.

Another way to control voting privileges, and steer election. It's the same stuff that happen before 1965.

My son is teaching in Korea and his license will expire in a couple of months. Does anyone know if I have Power Of Attorney if that is good enough?

I have seen and heard of a lot of stupid things in my life, but this takes the cake. I have had DL since 1976, and now you want my birth cert. marriage cert. and ss card and 2 more forms of id of where I live. How do you think I got my DL in the first place and had my married name changed?????? Now I have to dig it all up again. Let me prove (again) I was born in the US , not hatched from an egg or that a space ship dropped me at my mother's doorsteps with a note? Please!!!! How and what in the world is this fixing, or helping... if anything other to get on peoples last nerve?

I'm a 66 year old woman who has been married twice: once in 1971 and again in 1985. Both marriages ended in divorce. What does this have to do with renewing my Georgia license? Name changes, of course!! I am now to provide a marriage certificate for each marriage and a certified Divorce Decree. I foolishly believed that I would never have reason to be in possession of these documents, but that has proven act of idiocy on my part. I discarded these documents as of no interest to anyone, until I discovered that my driving privileges are contingent upon these papers being provided to Driver Services so they can review my "trail." (I never realized I had a "trail," or that it was worth tracking. This will now cause me to spend time, money and needless aggravation, all for the sake of satisfying inane regs that don't make anything better or safer.

Our current governing body wants to be a dictator ship. They want to be the big government that tells its people what they can and cannot do. Like the Health care bill. My father had a choice... I thought i would have those same privlages, But seems that i now don't have a choice.. Thanks to the current president and his staff. I can complain about this because i didn't vote for him. Some of those on this page did! All you have to do is read their post. I'm not sure what the American people want. I don't cast a vote based on party, i don't cast my vote based on skin color, I try to find out as much about the candidates as i can and make a wise decision based on facts not all the crap you here them saying. Vote based on the facts people, This is still America and for now we are still the land of the free! I love my country more than any republic candidate or democratic candidate. More than the party. news radio and t.v. are all full of lies, They will say what you want them to if you write them a check. so don't believe half of what you see and none of what you hear.

i just founded out to get my drivers License which i now have a learner's permit, i need marriage certificate, two bills, birth certificate, this is the most crazy thing that Georgia have come up with, I have proven who I am, now I have to keep reproving that I am a citizen's, my picture is on my license what else do they need, this is crazy, there have to be something behind this, "this is a close door law"

Even though I have proven my identity and citizenship many times over (military, security clearance, passport) I don't mind the aggravation that much. HOWEVER I expect our elected representatives to do their part and send the illegals back where they belong and/or make it so distasteful here (can't get jobs, free medical care, welfare,etc) that they self deport. Any bets as to how long that will take?

It's just a massive pain now days when you do almost anything you have to carry a file folder full of proof.... That you are who you are... And you live where you live. And I get it that in some cases you have to do that. But now that out state has taken that extra step...and even put that tacky star on our DLs.... How about slacking up on us? I just have a feeling its all hogwash!! Some crackpot had an "idea" that's only wasted money and efforts. I might be more inclined to fully support this and believe in it.... When I see it in action.

My father needs help fast!!! For the last 6 months my father has tried everything thinkable to obtain a birth certificate (including hiring a lawyer). 67 years ago he was born in a residential home, with no prof to show. Luther Weaver Jr. (My father) has been driving a CDL Truck for 46 years. He is already on the 120 day extension period. What he will loose, his job, his health insurance, want be able to pay any bills. My mother (his wife), is dying of cancer.
We are in a dire need of help. This problem is all due to the new license renewal laws. Please help. I will be forwarding to all local, national, TV stations, and news papers. Once again please help. Thank you Shawn Weaver
sweaver11000@yahoo.com