Printing error leads to thousands of Michigan residents getting driver’s licenses with random man’s picture

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Thousands of Michigan residents received driver’s licenses and state IDs bearing the photo of a random man, a mistake officials attributed to a printing error.
The misprinted cards showed a smiling Black man in the lower-right-hand corner with a birth date of Jan.
Where the holder’s name should appear, the back instead read “last name,” “first name” and “middle,” according to WDIV.

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Thousands of Michigan residents received driver’s licenses and state IDs bearing the photo of a random man, a mistake officials attributed to a printing error.
The misprinted cards showed a smiling Black man in the lower-right-hand corner with a birth date of Jan.
Where the holder’s name should appear, the back instead read “last name,” “first name” and “middle,” according to WDIV.

Sources: The Independent