The Center for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that 85% of self-reported drunken drivers were binge drinkers.

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Those require a driver to breathe into a tube, much like the breathalyzers police ask suspected drunken drivers to use.

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Also exposed were fraudulent voters, convicted drunken drivers applying for licenses under fake names and deadbeat dads trying to assume new identities.

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But along with the festivities, in some places, came warnings from police that they would be on the lookout for drunken drivers and other misbehavior.

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Even Sweden, where the legal limit is tiny and drunken drivers routinely go to jail, there are 500 road deaths a year attributed to drink.

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The board has previously recommended states to require that all convicted drunken drivers install the interlock devices in their vehicles as a condition to resume driving.

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The board also recommended that all suspected drunken drivers whose licenses are confiscated by police be required to install interlocks as a condition of getting their licenses reinstated even though they haven't yet been convicted of a crime.

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"They didn't just try to make drivers safer or try to criminalize (drunken) driving -- that alone wouldn't have worked, " Vernick said.

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