I have done some more reading and only offer this up in the hopes that mabye somebody else has other information, but it appears that this number is being used for mortgage fraud as well.

They give this number instead of a SSN number and thus no credit check or anything is possible. So far I have read a lot on ACORN and their efforts to bring these folks to the table for mortgages and using ITIN numbers instead of SSN.

You wonder why we have mortgage meltdowns, and border states want the federal law actually imposed ?

Thus far just reading but I understand and will stand corrected if I am wrong that you can use this number to get voter id ?