So, we'll fingerprint welfare recipients like criminals? Instead of asking
for utility bills and leases in their name to prove residency?
Other states are following suit...Pennsylvania, Florida...
* "A Test for Welfare Fraud Is Expanded to Families"
* By Esther B. Fein, The New York Times, 11/11/95
*
* New York State is sharply increasing the number of people it electronically
* fingerprints to detect welfare fraud past the 285,000 single adult program
* to more than 453,000 recipients of Aid to Families with Dependent Children.
*
* Of the 220,193 people electronically fingerprinted as of Nov. 9, only 146
* were found to have registered for duplicate benefits. New York State
* officials said they didn't expect to find many cases of fraud. [What???]
* "We are just using a new tool to help comply with Federal regulations
* prohibiting us from giving duplicate benefits."
*
* The program is costing the state $10 million a year.
One big evil eye, done with biometrics...control FAR BEYOND anything that
could be implemented with a social security number.
It's for our best interests...
* "Suffolk Medical Examiner Urges Fingerprinting Law"
* By John T. McQuiston, The New York Times, 8/20/1996
*
* Putting motorists' fingerprints on NY driver's licenses, as is done in
* California, would help identify disaster victims, the Suffolk Medical
* Examiner told a committee of the County Legislature about his work on
* the crash of TWA Flight 800.
*
* "The victims from California were the fastest and easiest to identify,"
*