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Senior
Citizens May Be Allowed to Opt Out of Digital Driver's License Program
Newsday, May 5, 2003
TRENTON, N.J.
-- The state may allow senior citizens to opt out of the upcoming digital
driver's license program because many of them cannot handle the stress
caused by a visit to their local motor vehicles agency.
The waiver, one of several proposals now under consideration, would allow
anyone over 70 to renew their nonphoto paper licenses through the mail.
State officials estimate that as many as 400,000 senior citizens are among
the 1.2 million drivers who still use the old paper licenses.
As of now, all these drivers would have to get their pictures taken at a
DMV office when their current license expire. However, officials realize
that could pose problems for many elderly residents, especially those with
health problems.
"We're going to have to be creative and come up with something,"
DMV Director Diane Legreide told The Star-Ledger of Newark for Monday's
editions. "(Gov. James E.McGreevey) is very, very interested in
this."
The first batch of the new licenses are due to be issued in July. They
will bear a digital watermark, a complex series of embedded codes and
secret features designed to thwart anyone who attempts to falsify a
legitimate card or produce a fake.
Any waiver or other program would have to be reviewed by the state police
and New Jersey's counterterrorism office, and also would need the approval
of the state legislature. Officials also would need to resolve the
logistics of protecting the validity of a version of the new driver's
license that would not have photographs, Legreide said.
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