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A Hawaiian woman is unable to obtain government identification due to her unusually long name and the limitations of the government’s computer system.
Janice Keihanaikukauakahihuliheekahaunaele cannot get an accurate Driver’s Licence showing her full name because it exceeds the number of characters the computer system will accept. When she complained, Keihanaikukauakahihuliheekahaunaele was advised by a civil servant that the simplest solution is for her to change her name. Funnily enough, she is attached to her surname, which she took on when she married her husband, who has since passed away, and she does not intend to change it.
Hawaii will soon adopt a new system that will permit more characters to be displayed on driver’s licences, but for now she must use ID that has a truncated, and thus inaccurate, version of her name.
Find out more about this from The Daily Mail