All states are different, every state sends a driver's license to all people that want to drive and pay for the privilege which should be a right aka no license/permit yada yada.. AFAIK, there's no national ID card that has to be carried by any citizen/resident of any state right now anywhere in the USA. Point being, according to the article there was a push from the mid 2000s to get a nat'l id trending across the country by establishment republicans but has been rebuffed in many states, including NH. NH, being the freedom vehicle that it is, has shut down this National ID stroke into the future and doesn't want anything to do with it. It takes the most advanced activists to shoot something down and in NH it comes down to the Free State Project being the vehicle that drives libertarians to come there to straighten out the state. In addition to this, they shot down the seatbelt law, via an $8 million bribe via the Feds, back in 2010. Is that realistic in you life? If not, consider https://freestateproject.org/