Name and face databases of law-abiding citizens, like driver's license records, already exist.
Melania Trump's signature on the contract resembled her signature on her marriage license recorded in 2005.
Florida state records show that he drove a sporty red Mitsubishi Eclipse, and pilot license records show that he had an expired license in Hamburg, Germany.
To prevent that from happening, he ordered that the voter rolls be checked against driver's license records to ferret out renegade voters.
Even today, some of the states that are supposed to help Customs check such license records do not staff their operations centers around the clock.
Using computers, volunteers can check those rolls against driver's license records, property records and other databases, turning the process into an assembly line production.
A 2002 federal law, the Help America Vote Act, or HAVA, requires states to check voter registration applications against government databases like those for driver's license records.
Using basic statistical techniques, a geographic information system (GIS) and data acquired from actual drivers license records, this study examines the demographic, socioeconomic, religious and electoral landscapes as they relate to potential organ donorship rates across the state of Ohio.
Those requirements are being tightened starting next month: Applicants will have to provide one month of pay stubs, and the state will use driver's license records and tax information from the Illinois Department of Revenue to make sure enrollees live in Illinois.
State legislators, meanwhile, plan on re-examining confidentiality rules to make it as difficult as possible for Immigration and Customs Enforcement to gain access to driver's license records, school and medical records.
It would not be a big stretch, Mr. Davis said, to pass legislation creating a database of photos of all the parents in the country who are suspected of abducting their children, then comparing those photos to drivers' license records.
