This brings about a salient question: why are so many states failing to comply? The sheer number of non-compliant territories suggests that the answer is more significant than stubbornness or laziness on the states’ behalfs. Currently, our state is one of 26 American states and territories which have not kept up with the act’s stipulations, including New Jersey, Rhode Island, Massachusetts. This initially sounds rather absurd however, Pennsylvania is by no means alone. Since its inception, Pennsylvania has failed to comply, making 2018 the 13th year of noncompliance. The act specifically requires “the incorporation of specified data, a common machine-readable technology, and certain anti-fraud security features” to be included in a state’s ID. The law exists in four phases of increasing limitation, the last of which includes the aforementioned inability to pass through airport security and federal facility security. The act was created in response to 9/11, and attempts to increase national security through its strengthening of limitations. The REAL ID Act was created in 2005, with the primary intent to impose “minimum security standards for license issuance and production”.
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