SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Few people enjoy the photographs on their driver’s licenses. A California woman was especially surprised when she saw the photo on her new license.
Lesley Pilgrim, of Sacramento, said the photo on her new license shows her wearing a COVID-19 mask, KOVR reported. The new license was accompanied with a note Monday that read, “Congratulations, enclosed is your newly designed California driver license.”
“I knew the picture was not going to be good because license pictures are never good, but I did not expect the picture to be with my mask on,” Pilgrim told KOVR.
My daughter, Lesley Pilgrim, got her new “Real ID” today from the DMV. Hmmmmm.... I wonder if there will be any issues with,say, flying, buying liquor, banking...? Oh well, good enough for Government Work!
Posted by Larry Pilgrim on Monday, February 15, 2021
Pilgrim said when she went to the Department of Motor Vehicles, she was afraid to remove her mask because she did not want to be sent to the back of a line that had a three-hour waiting time, WABC reported.
“They were very strict,” Pilgrim told KOVR. “So I’m going to be very compliant, and listen, and follow every instruction, maybe to a fault.”
Pilgrim said the DMV employee took two photographs, one with the mask and one without, the television station reported.
“I sign it and I then I go home, and unfortunately he had used my picture with my mask on, and that’s what showed up on my Real ID,” Pilgrim told KOVR.
Pilgrim’s Real ID is technically valid, but department officials said a new one would be issued with the correct photograph, KABC reported.
“In this instance, there was an oversight,” the DMV said in a statement. “The customer should have been asked to lower her mask for the photo. The DMV will investigate how this may have happened and remind staff of proper procedures.”
“I think I settled on, you know what, we’re all human, and even the people at the DMV are human and we all make mistakes,” Pilgrim told KOVR.
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