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DMV: Most Fail Test For Driver Authorization Card

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LAS VEGAS (AP) — Nevada Department of Motor Vehicles officials have advice for immigrants seeking a driver authorization card: study.

They estimate 75 percent of applicants have failed the written test needed for the card under a new law that made the state the 11th nationally to offer driving privileges to people in the country illegally. The cards became available Thursday.
Applicants must correctly answer 80 percent of 50 questions to pass the test. They also are required to pass a driving exam to receive cards. The failure rate on the driving test was not immediately available.

“We’d much rather see people come in prepared than just come in to see if they will pass or not,” DMV spokesman Kevin Malone told KSNV-TV in Las Vegas. “You need to study the (driver’s) handbook, make sure you have all the documentation and then come on in.”

DMV: Most Fail Test For Driver Authorization Card « CBS Las Vegas
 
I'm thinking it was all a conspiracy to get illegals to register with the state. The only logical reason for a 75% failure rate is that the test was biased against minorities.

These poor, hard working people are just coming here to do jobs that nobody else is willing to do and to provide for their families and now we're denying them their natural rights based on biased testing and so called "standards". We really need to start getting rid of standards so that people can live their lives with dignity. The test is only available in English and Spanish so someone who can't read either of those languages is bound to fail. Besides, why should literacy be a prerequisite for driving? You're not supposed to be reading while driving anyway.
 
Lutherf said:
I'm thinking it was all a conspiracy to get illegals to register with the state. The only logical reason for a 75% failure rate is that the test was biased against minorities.

These poor, hard working people are just coming here to do jobs that nobody else is willing to do and to provide for their families and now we're denying them their natural rights based on biased testing and so called "standards". We really need to start getting rid of standards so that people can live their lives with dignity. The test is only available in English and Spanish so someone who can't read either of those languages is bound to fail. Besides, why should literacy be a prerequisite for driving? You're not supposed to be reading while driving anyway.
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Yea!

Screw all of those traffic control signs.
 
It is easy at least with the Mexican immigrants.

The rules say you have to study and pass the test.

Since they don't follow rules, who expected they would pass?
 
The bleeding hearts are going to want to just give them a license; nevermind the test.
 
If there is a fee to take the test over again, then I say: BRILLIANT!
 
I hope they dont get their money refunded if they fail. They probably dont. I also hope they have to pay full price again to retake it.

I see an additional strategy here. I was the only one that mentioned...besides all the partisan blaming (unfounded) and other complaints that there's a fast and direct source of $$$ here for the state.

If they make the tests too hard, then it could be win-win....
 
Lursa said:
I hope they dont get their money refunded if they fail. They probably dont. I also hope they have to pay full price again to retake it.

I see an additional strategy here. I was the only one that mentioned...besides all the partisan blaming (unfounded) and other complaints that there's a fast and direct source of $$$ here for the state.

If they make the tests too hard, then it could be win-win....
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I am sure it is the same test that everybody else takes.

They just have to study to pass.

Keep in mind, at least for the Mexicans, they buy their drivers licenses for the most part so they have never taken a drivers test in their lives.

The driving part will be fun for the instructor. I hope his insurance is paid up.
 
Lutherf said:
I'm thinking it was all a conspiracy to get illegals to register with the state. The only logical reason for a 75% failure rate is that the test was biased against minorities.

These poor, hard working people are just coming here to do jobs that nobody else is willing to do and to provide for their families and now we're denying them their natural rights based on biased testing and so called "standards". We really need to start getting rid of standards so that people can live their lives with dignity. The test is only available in English and Spanish so someone who can't read either of those languages is bound to fail. Besides, why should literacy be a prerequisite for driving? You're not supposed to be reading while driving anyway.
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Yeah, let's just lower the bar to do everything in this country, not to mention the safety issues. Sure, let's make it even less likely that people will learn and remember the laws.

Driving is a privilege. I have no issues with measures to make it safer.
 
Mason66 said:
I am sure it is the same test that everybody else takes.

They just have to study to pass.

Keep in mind, at least for the Mexicans, they buy their drivers licenses for the most part so they have never taken a drivers test in their lives.

The driving part will be fun for the instructor. I hope his insurance is paid up.
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Do you know that? It's not for the same document, so they could get away with making it different.

(Of course that doesnt mean the ACLU wouldnt challenge it :( )
 
Lursa said:
Yeah, let's just lower the bar to do everything in this country, not to mention the safety issues. Sure, let's make it even less likely that people will learn and remember the laws.

Driving is a privilege. I have no issues with measures to make it safer.
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We've been doing it for years. Why stop now?

Some people apparently have a hard time getting an ID so we shouldn't require one to vote. Some people have a hard time finding a job so we should pay unemployment benefits indefinitely. Some people don't have health insurance so we should make everyone else pay for a policy for them. Some kids can't pass a test in school so we should change the standards to "at least they tried". Why should driving be any different?

These so called "illegal aliens" probably had no idea that that long walk through the desert in the dead of night would put them in this country illegally and then when they had kids they probably had no idea that those kids would also be here illegally but that's not their fault, it's everyone else's fault for having these stupid standards in the first place.

If your kid is acting up in school it's not because they're undisciplined, it's because they're mentally challenged. If you get knocked up out of wedlock it's not your fault, it's the fault of the bastards that refused to give you free birth control. If you can't pay your bills that's not your fault, it's the evil corporations who insist on getting paid for their goods and services. If you spent 15 years in college and have a PhD in ancient Greek art but now nobody wants to hire you to run their widget factory that's not your fault, it's the fault of the scumbags that offshored all the good jobs.

See where I'm going here?

Why should we bother having any damned standards at all if we just going to blame failure on someone else and subsidize that failed life?
 
Lutherf said:
We've been doing it for years. Why stop now?

Some people apparently have a hard time getting an ID so we shouldn't require one to vote. Some people have a hard time finding a job so we should pay unemployment benefits indefinitely. Some people don't have health insurance so we should make everyone else pay for a policy for them. Some kids can't pass a test in school so we should change the standards to "at least they tried". Why should driving be any different?

These so called "illegal aliens" probably had no idea that that long walk through the desert in the dead of night would put them in this country illegally and then when they had kids they probably had no idea that those kids would also be here illegally but that's not their fault, it's everyone else's fault for having these stupid standards in the first place.

If your kid is acting up in school it's not because they're undisciplined, it's because they're mentally challenged. If you get knocked up out of wedlock it's not your fault, it's the fault of the bastards that refused to give you free birth control. If you can't pay your bills that's not your fault, it's the evil corporations who insist on getting paid for their goods and services. If you spent 15 years in college and have a PhD in ancient Greek art but now nobody wants to hire you to run their widget factory that's not your fault, it's the fault of the scumbags that offshored all the good jobs.

See where I'm going here?

Why should we bother having any damned standards at all if we just going to blame failure on someone else and subsidize that failed life?
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Exactly....and I'm against dumbing down the testing for driving. For anyone.
 
Lursa said:
Do you know that? It's not for the same document, so they could get away with making it different.

(Of course that doesnt mean the ACLU wouldnt challenge it :( )
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If they could have made it harder for these people, they would have made it harder for everybody.

Making anew test would have cost a lot of money and I doubt the government would have spent that.

I don't think it matters how easy it is, if you don't learn the material, you fail.
 
Mason66 said:
If they could have made it harder for these people, they would have made it harder for everybody.

Making anew test would have cost a lot of money and I doubt the government would have spent that.

I don't think it matters how easy it is, if you don't learn the material, you fail.
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Oh I can definitely see (the potential for) 2 separate agendas here.

What motive would they have to make them harder for citizens?

I think you missed my point.
 
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