TSA Says Passengers Without Real ID Should Get to the Airport 3 Hours Early

Sounds like bringing your passport solves the problem completely. Something that has always been a good idea.
- Most people in the US don’t actually have a passport.
  
  “Most” people do. 51%. I thought it would be lower, too.
  https://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/news/2024/10/23/state-department-issues-record-us-passports/75794556007/
  
  Yeah I’ve never had one. Too poor to leave this hellhole
- Passport or passport card if you're on a domestic flight.

One day, the divers license works fine, the next day it turns into an arduous process. What exactly changes about the ~~probability~~ provability of your identity?
I’d love to hear what the full processes for checking IDs are in all three cases: RealID, Drivers License, Drivers License after RealID is required.
- Nothing really, it's just a way for the federal government to expand control and tracking of people.
- The documentation required to obtain a REAL ID is federally mandated (proof of identity, citizenship, and residency), whereas previously all states kinda did their own thing. Additionally, there are required verification services for those documents (when possible), e.g. passports have to get verified through the US Passport Verification System, etc.
  Happy to share more, if you’re interested :)
  
  whereas previously all states kinda did their own thing
  This can't be emphasized enough. Different states had (and still have) wildly different standards for what is required to get a basic Driver's License or ID Card. Making a unified standard needed to happen, even if the way Real ID was implemented was... let's say "problematic".
  AFAIK you can still get a non-Real ID compliant license in almost every state, though for some the difference in documentation requirements are all but nonexistent. Here in Nevada the only difference in required documents is that you can't use a Prison Identification Card to get a Real ID.
  
  its needlessly convoluted.
- It's a poll tax even if the fee is inconvenience.

It's been a while since I've flown from the US, but in Canada you don't show ID until you're boarding. Is don't remember it being different, but I guess something must have changed?
- In the US, there's a security checkpoint after check-in but before the gates. They check your ID and boarding pass there, then just your BP when boarding the plane.
  
  This exists pretty much everywhere in the world.
  
  Interesting. In Canada security only checks your boarding pass, and they check ID at the gate as you're boarding.
  It seems logical if you want to verify that the right people are getting on the plane.
- In the US you show your ID to TSA at the security check point.
- I’ve had to show it at both security and boarding for a few years now. Both domestic and international.
- What? You have to show ID art the ticket counter or kiosk to get your boarding pass. Security usually only looks at the boarding pass, then you have to show ID at the gate. That’s how it’s been in Canada as long as I can remember.
  
  Yeah, people don't consider it as showing ID when you scan it at an automated kiosk to get your boarding pass even though it is.