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• December 11, 2008 (Computerworld) As President-elect Barack Obama prepares to take the reins in Washington, it remains unclear how his administration will deal with the controversial Real ID national identification standards put in motion by predecessor George W. Bush.rnrnThus far, Obama himself has made almost no public comments about the Real ID initiative, which calls for driver's licenses and other state-issued IDs to include digital photos and be machine-readable so the information on them can be captured by scanning devices. And on the one occasion in which Obama had an opportunity to vote on an issue related to the Real ID Act in the Senate, he didn't cast a ballot.rn …
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