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CWP Not Accepted as Second ID Today

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#1 ·
I was taking an exam for a real estate related license today at a Person VUE center. They are VERY strict about security including making you empty your pockets and store stuff in a locker as well as checking eye glasses for any attachments such as cameras. You have to be escorted to your seat and cannot leave until someone gets you if they see your hand raised.

I presented my CWP as a second form of ID and the two clerks had to check with another and they said that recently the CWP was no longer allowed as a valid form of ID. thankfully a mere credit card was accepted and I got to take the test.
 
#2 ·
Yep. I forget where / who it was (years ago). But, I was asked for a 2nd form of PHOTO ID. I presented my CCW. Rejected. Not acceptable. A state-issued photo ID rejected. I ended up using a CC / Debit card, I think (with no photo, mind you). Besides CCW, who has TWO forms of photo ID??? Whatever!
 
#4 ·
So, you had fun with it, eh? :grin
 
#5 ·
I ran into that with some kind of certification test. Wasn't valid but I think a credit / debit card was. Whatever?

I've since got a US Passport card that I carry and leave the passport in the safe at home. Not that I've needed it much for a second ID.
 
#9 ·
My daughter was out with me one evening and wanted a drink, I was driving and for some reason, he didn’t have her drivers license, but had her CWP, they ask for ID, she got her beer.
 
#11 ·
For years banks would not accept a FL CWFL as a second form of ID.
Most now do.
I still chuckle though when I see things like this where a CC, one of the easiest things to get is accepted yet a state issued ID that one has to be fingerprinted and go thru a background check to get isn’t. It’s just ignorance on their part.
 
#14 ·
As a secondary form if ID does NOT have the same requirements as one's primary ID. Hence, the acceptance of a credit card, debit card or a Blockbuster card. Types of secondary forms are subjective to the agency accepting them.
 
#13 ·
I wonder if my new VA ID qualifies as "valid ID?"
 
#17 ·
This is nothing new.. Many years ago when I was a young LEO, I wanted to pay for something with a check at a large retail store. They wanted two forms of I.d.. I showed my drivers license and my police I.D., it had my picture on it. They would not accept it, stating anyone could get one of those. I showed a credit card as the second form and they accepted that.
People who are not familiar with ccw and other I.D. just don't know or are told this is the only forms of I.D. acceptable.
 
#19 · (Edited)
For the sake of discussion, your FLCWFL is good-to-go for voting in Florida.

When voting early or voting at a polling place, Florida law requires voters to present a picture ID with signature. Acceptable forms of ID are:

  • Florida driver's license (quickest ID to process)
  • Florida identification card issued by the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles (quickest ID to process)
  • United States passport
  • Debit or credit card
  • Military identification
  • Student identification
  • Retirement center identification
  • Neighborhood Association identification
  • Public Assistance identification
  • Veteran Health Identification card issued by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs
  • License to carry a concealed weapon or firearm issued pursuant to s. 790.06
  • Employee identification card issued by any branch, department, agency, or entity of the Federal Government, the state, a county, or a municipality

ID required and checked at the polls is used solely to confirm the voter’s identity, not to verify the voter’s ID number or address. The photograph on the ID is compared to the person standing before the Election Day Worker and the signature on the ID is compared to the signature on record.If the voter’s picture ID does not contain a signature, an additional document with signature may be used.
 
#20 ·
The photograph on the ID is compared to the person standing before the Election Day Worker and the signature on the ID is compared to the signature on record.If the voter’s picture ID does not contain a signature, an additional document with signature may be used.
This created a brief issue for me at the polls once.

First, the notion of poll workers being "handwriting experts" is laughable on its face. Utterly ABSURD.

The signature on my license is OLD. Really old. At least a decade or more? Because I sign my name many times a day (at work), my signature has evolved since then... it's more and more illegible... about the only readable letter is the first letter followed by what has become more of a running line. :grin

So, my signature did not match the one on the license. I explained why. She didn't care. So, I said, "Give me my license, and I'll copy the signature." She did, and so I did exactly that. STUPID. Proves NOTHING. But, she was an unthinking cog in the wheel who robotically follows orders.
 
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