I used to work for one state's Department of Motor Vehicles.
Part of why REAL ID is such a charley foxtrot is because there exists no such identifier and since every state counts approximately as a sort-of-almost sovereign nation (this is basically what the 10th Amendment guarantees), there is and can be no possible nationwide citizen identifier.
There are about 3500 different counties in the US. All of which may or may not issue their own birth certificates. States are supposed to do that now.
I used to work for one state's Department of Motor Vehicles.
Part of why REAL ID is such a charley foxtrot is because there exists no such identifier and since every state counts approximately as a sort-of-almost sovereign nation (this is basically what the 10th Amendment guarantees), there is and can be no possible nationwide citizen identifier.
There are about 3500 different counties in the US. All of which may or may not issue their own birth certificates. States are supposed to do that now.