- Sep 26, 2000
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D'uh. It was so long ago I had almost forgotten.
About 30 years ago when I lived in New York I lost my wallet with my drivers license.
I got a replacement license pretty quickly. However, about three months later I started to get notices my license was suspended. I went to the motor vehichle office which sent me to the courthouse. The courthouse said I had run red lights, gone down a one way street the wrong way, and few other citations. However, I could only see the judge on the day of my court case. Which they told me had been mailed to me. This went on for like 2 months.
Finally I called my State Assemblyman and he called the Motor Vehichle and this was what I found out.
Someone had been using my license. And the court was sending the trial notifications to his address and the suspension notifications to me.
The end result of this was that the Motor Vehicle tried to fix my license and couldn't. Instead they issued me a new license with a new i.d. number. However, my insurance company would not renew my insurance because the tickets kept showing on my license. Turns out, at least in New York, you drivers license number is made up of numbers and letters that are codes for things like your sex, and your name. Since a new license for me would have had the exact same number they added a "tie breaker" of 001 to the end of drivers license number. But the insurance companies did not have enough fields to enter any more digits than the standard number.
So the motor vehicle said they would drop my middle initial from my new license and therefore I would have a new i.d. number.
Now I live in another state and can once again use my middle initial.
BUT if I lived in Ohio and registered to vote using my full name, it would have conflicted with my lack of initial on my drivers license, and the Republicans wanted me kicked off the voter list.
Funny how I didn't think how this could have applied to me.
But it would have.
About 30 years ago when I lived in New York I lost my wallet with my drivers license.
I got a replacement license pretty quickly. However, about three months later I started to get notices my license was suspended. I went to the motor vehichle office which sent me to the courthouse. The courthouse said I had run red lights, gone down a one way street the wrong way, and few other citations. However, I could only see the judge on the day of my court case. Which they told me had been mailed to me. This went on for like 2 months.
Finally I called my State Assemblyman and he called the Motor Vehichle and this was what I found out.
Someone had been using my license. And the court was sending the trial notifications to his address and the suspension notifications to me.
The end result of this was that the Motor Vehicle tried to fix my license and couldn't. Instead they issued me a new license with a new i.d. number. However, my insurance company would not renew my insurance because the tickets kept showing on my license. Turns out, at least in New York, you drivers license number is made up of numbers and letters that are codes for things like your sex, and your name. Since a new license for me would have had the exact same number they added a "tie breaker" of 001 to the end of drivers license number. But the insurance companies did not have enough fields to enter any more digits than the standard number.
So the motor vehicle said they would drop my middle initial from my new license and therefore I would have a new i.d. number.
Now I live in another state and can once again use my middle initial.
BUT if I lived in Ohio and registered to vote using my full name, it would have conflicted with my lack of initial on my drivers license, and the Republicans wanted me kicked off the voter list.
Funny how I didn't think how this could have applied to me.
But it would have.
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