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Bill: Government-issued identity card policy.
Details
Submitted by[?]: Education Party
Status[?]: defeated
Votes: This is an ordinary bill. It requires more yes votes than no votes. This bill will not pass any sooner than the deadline.
Voting deadline: April 3054
Description[?]:
| National identification cards can be used to track an individual. In order for the national identification card to be usable by the government, a national database containing personal information would have to be created. This database is an invasion of privacy. However, if the government chooses not to create this database, then it will be too easy for individuals to commit fraud by having multiple cards with different identities. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Government-issued identity card policy.
Old value:: All citizens are issued with identity cards and are required to carry them at all times.
Current: All citizens are issued with identity cards and are required to carry them at all times.
Proposed: Citizens are not issued with identity cards.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 11:31:59, December 31, 2010 CET | From | Bürgerlichen Soziale Union | To | Debating the Government-issued identity card policy. |
| Message | Mr. Speaker, This is absurd! Obviously identity cards are to be used to track individuals, and know who they are. The national database is currently in place. It is not a 'invasion of privacy' it is protecting other people from drug dealers, and people who are simple criminals. While I ensure you, that not many, if not no one has multiple identity cards. It is simple to uncover and know by for example finger prints etc. This would be incredibly irresponsible! |
| Date | 04:20:44, January 01, 2011 CET | From | . | To | Debating the Government-issued identity card policy. |
| Message | Mr. Speaker, We are concerned about the civil liberties implications of having a compulsory national identity card system. A voluntary system would be preferable. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes |
Total Seats: 179 | |||
| no |
Total Seats: 321 | |||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
| Random fact: Any RP law granting extraordinary "emergency powers" or dictator-like powers to a government must be passed by at least a 2/3rds majority, but (like all RP laws) may always be overturned by a simple majority vote of the legislature. |
| Random quote: "If it were proved to me that in making war, my ideal had a chance of being realized, I would still say 'No' to war, for one does not create human society on mounds of corpses." - Louis Lecoin |