Another Sane Voice: Passports and Real ID

At the Inforum Opinion site (North Dakota), Lloyd Omdahl looks at quiet, peaceful, voter-fraudless N.D. getting dragged into a uniform voter system including Real ID. Among other interesting things, he says:

Multiple use of the REAL ID cards could be carried another step. Border states are concerned over the proposal to require passports for traveling to and from Canada. Because passports are being forged by aliens on a routine basis, they offer no more security than the REAL ID cards. So we might as well use the REAL ID cards in lieu of passports.

As we've said here, it makes no sense to have both Real ID and passports. The overlap of cost to maintain these, in the long run, is senseless.