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The Geek's Raven
[An excerpt, with thanks to Marcus Bales]

Once upon a midnight dreary,
fingers cramped and vision bleary,
System manuals piled high and wasted paper on the floor,
Longing for the warmth of bedsheets,
Still I sat there, doing spreadsheets:
Having reached the bottom line,
I took a floppy from the drawer.
Typing with a steady hand, I then invoked the SAVE command
But got instead a reprimand: it read "Abort, Retry, Ignore".

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Monday, October 30, 2023

How can we persuade Oklahoma to make driver's licenses and State ID's available for pickup in state again?

In November of 2022, the DL equipment was removed from all 300 tag agencies in the state of Oklahoma, and the production of Oklahoma credentials -- driver's licenses, State ID's -- was out-sourced to the state of Indiana. The reason? According to Service Oklahoma, the purpose was to conform to the Real ID federal regulations. This is total nonsense of course. Perhaps half the states in the Union produce their own Real ID's at a large number of locations, while perhaps half subcontract their production to other states. This process of mailing credentials in from other states causes inconvenience and confusion, and is generally considered to be bad service. Many states, including California, Texas and Florida make driver's license and ID pickup available same day, on site. So, why is Oklahoma, in particular, really outsourcing the production of credentials to Indiana? The reason is likely associated with Oklahoma government policy of minimizing the number of government employees, and government responsibilities. Given the hundreds of private tag agencies in the state, it was deemed impractical to effectively arrange for their low-paid, uneducated and untrained employees to consistently follow the new federal security regulations for Real ID's. So, rather than hire new government employees to administer the Real ID production process in State, the State of Oklahoma elected to sub-contract the process to the State of Indiana. This probably isn't saving money, since, no doubt, Indiana is profiting very well from this arrangement. It's simply a matter of following Oklahoma government policies of "reducing state government", even when this costs more money than it saves, and inconveniences the good citizens of Oklahoma. The Oklahoma State government needs to recognize its error here. They need to arrange to hire enough properly trained employees to actually manufacture Oklahoma credentials in state. And, they need to give Oklahomans the right to pick up their credentials on site, when needed, and not have to depend on the uncertainties and lack of accountability of the mail services. Well, they could just put the DL equipment back into the DPS office in OKC, for starters. Those are government workers in there, and it's a very secure location. As for the rest of the state, they could hire a dozen or so state workers, one to supervise each of the dozen or so largest and most secure tag agencies in the state. That would solve the problem, and it would be cheaper than having to subcontract the entire Indiana government.

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