The cards were reissued with an internally produced number.

During my time in the military, they used SSN as our service ID number, so my SSN is basically on the public domain. They’re supposed to redact it in any public records but you know how well that goes. I don’t worry about it too much, pretty much the only thing I have to steal is my good name. My credit score’s been north of 800 for decades, but I keep my credit locked. Inconvenient in the rare case I need a new loan because I have to unlock it, but it prevents anyone from taking out a loan in my name.

I’m pretty sure the military has switched to a separate ID number. At least they have for retirees…I assume they have for active duty as well…for that very reason.

“National voting ID is essential.”

I disagree. I think it can be managed best at the state level, but there should be federal oversight to ensure that the ID and voter integrity laws in the state meet a minimum standard and that they’re enforced. National ID opens a whole new avenue for abuse when the Good Guys are not in power.

“And only if every vote you cast .gives you and only you the power to check your vote and how it was counted”

I like your idea in principle; I’d like to be able to check after I cast my vote and make sure it was counted and counted correctly. Unfortunately there is no way to ever guarantee that you’d be the only one able to access it. If it’s stored somewhere, whether physically or digitally, it can be accessed. There is no such thing as an un-hackable computer or unbreakable encryption.

How long would it be before everyone’s voting records were published on Tik-Tok or Instagram?

I’m pretty open about my political affiliation, but I’ve got 21 years of military experience and a safe full of guns to back me up. Picture a couple of burly men knocking on the door of a grandma’s house, telling her “we’re from the democrat voting assurance committee, we see you usually cast your vote for the other guy so we just wanted to make sure you’re safe and don’t feel threatened or anything, because we’ve heard that people who vote like you have had bad things happen to them. It’d be a shame if your house burned down in the middle of the night, wouldn’t it?”

Even discounting that extreme, the really vulnerable people are the ones who live in democrat strongholds but vote republican. Imagine the reaction if all their neighbors, employer and co-workers found out that they voted for [GASP] literally Hitler.

If you are non-Boeing person passing by one of the main Boeing plants and have a medical emergency and ask the gate guard for help, Boeing doctors and nurses will tend to you until you can be transferred. You will be issued a unique Boeing ID for the Boeing medical system.