"You stay with me, always in my head..."

January 11, 2008 the US Department of Homeland Security released the final security regulations for REAL ID regulation. The REAL ID act strips the American people of even more civil liberties, as the federally mandated regulations for state id's will be required to access any federal institutions or programs.
As if that weren't bad enough, Indiana's state legislator recently passed a law requiring voters to produce identification (drivers licenses) in order to complete their polling procedures. This obvious assault on the already disenfranchised poor will probably be held up in the Supreme Court, as it is currently being tried as a "facial challenge" (No one has been rejected yet from a polling station in lieu of this act, a case based on principle and hyptothetical-- though that shouldn't take away from this cases legitimacy, because as Justice Souter points out, “...one of the vices would be that it would be after the election, and the entire matter would be academic for another two years.”)
Digimarc Corporation, the tech business that won the right to produce the federally mandated technology (after a $350,000 lobbying effort), have been adding the same technology/security features to Indiana's id's since June 2007. So, in Indiana, if one desires to drive, vote, or buy alcohol and cigarettes he or she has no choice but to operate with the REAL ID program. The requirement of id at polling stations is audacious and reverses almost fifty years of civil rights since the courts rightly struck down poll taxes.

Note: I'm not sure if I put the links on right, but if they don't show I'll repost them.