There was an aborted effort to establish a national identifier in the 1960's, using the Social Security number. IIRC it was some nerds/bureaucrats suggesting it, but it was quickly killed amidst a concern over privacy, not to mention the sign of the beast.
Over the decades the U.S. has come up with jury-rigged substitutes, Real ID being the latest. In the last century we had a process for passing information on men who were ordered to provide child support between states. But we don't have the sort of process which bureaucrats would like. If we did, it would alleviate problems on updating voter rolls and on tracking coronavirus vaccinations.
We'll continue with our jury-rigging process for the foreseeable future.
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