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Initech

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Thu Sep 12, 2013, 05:51 PM Sep 2013

Hawaii Woman Asked By State To Change Name Because It's Too Long To Fit On License

For the past 20 years, Janice “Lokelani” Keihanaikukauakahihuliheekahaunaele has had to carry two identification cards.

“The county has never accommodated my name on my driver’s license,” Keihanaikukauakahihuliheekahaunaele said.

Instead, it drops the 36th letter of her last name and doesn’t print her first or middle name. So she also carries a state ID, which in the past, included her full name.

“The governor’s office went back into the computer department and they found a way to put our name on our state ID,” Keihanaikukauakahihuliheekahaunaele said

http://www.khon2.com/2013/09/10/action-line-state-alters-womans-name-after-it-fails-to-fit-on-drivers-license/


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