DMV: Most Licenses Properly Issued

Raleigh, N.C. — Nine months after a state audit found thousands of driver's licenses had been issued to people with invalid Social Security numbers, the state Division of Motor Vehicles said fewer than 4,000 licenses need to be checked.

The DMV began requiring Social Security numbers to issue a license last year.

DMV officials analyzed the audit findings over the last eight months, and officials said Wednesday that 3,581 licenses needed additional verification.

“We’ll send holders of the questionable licenses a letter early in 2008, asking them to present their licenses to DMV and to provide proper documentation,” Commissioner of Motor Vehicles William Gore said in a statement. “We’ll then verify their authenticity.”

About 16,000 of the licenses questioned in the audit have either expired or have been suspended, officials said.

Gore said the remaining questionable licenses likely are a combination of data entry errors, cases where names haven't been changed with the Social Security Administration and cases where applicants might have provided false Social Security numbers to obtain driver's licenses.

The DMV’s analysis found 3,437 license holders were deceased and hadn't been reported. Another 700 had names or birth dates that didn't match the records in the Social Security database.

Since August, the agency has used an online verification program that allows employees to check the authenticity of Social Security numbers.

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Yes as far as I am concerned our Governor is a criminal in many ways, one of those being the fact he has aided and abetted criminals in past years by having this state be a magnet to illegals because they could too easily get licenses. He should be sharing a cell with Jim Black

whatelseisnew
December 19, 2007 8:45 p.m.

NO wonder this country is in the shape it's in!

mindyourown
December 19, 2007 6:56 p.m.

The the family's who have lost members to illegals driving drunk or driving stupid that it is not important that our Governor and our State have allowed countless thousands of non-citizens to endanger our lives. I for one find it very important and nothing less than criminal.

lgboro
December 19, 2007 6:45 p.m.

The audit found that, out of the 8.1 million Social Security numbers provided to DMV, almost 27,000 were invalid. The number didn't include the 1.7 million driver’s licenses in the DMV database that don't contain Social Security numbers. I say flag them all. If an American forgets to pay a traffic ticket he might find his self driving without a license. If they send a letter give them x days and if they don’t show terminate them. And I also think the State Board of Elections should be the first one to lead the charge and crime control for identity fraud. Protect and serve. There is no way an American could walk into DMV and get a licenses with out a birth certificate and social security card not just the number, they had to see it; but since the illegal aliens have been here they have completely lost there mentality. And they are trying to let them go to college, taxpayer pay 20% of out of state tuition.