Does SAVE require documentary proof of citizenship to vote, or just to register? As I understand it, documentary proof of citizenship is the specific requirement that's hard for anyone who has had a change of name to meet short of a passport or an EDL in the 5 states that offer one.
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Basically it changes the types of id that are accepted at voting booths.
When you vote you already have to have registered with appropriate ID to be counted federally. When you show up at the poll this act will change so that only federally issued ID types will be valid. Birth certificates are the most common but if your current name is different than what you were born with for any reason it won't count.
Of these federal id types most of them are opt in varieties and as such are actually more expensive types of specific ID like passports and "REAL ID". A regular old drivers licence as issued by your state won't be good enough anymore even though your name and listed address were verified by the state and already match the name on the voter registration.
Since these id types are more expensive it can make voting the preserve of those who can afford the time and extra money making it a way to disenfranchise economically disadvantaged voters of all stripes .
SAVE calls for "documentary proof of United States citizenship", which it defines in the act itself. A RealID that also verifies citizenship counts (normal RealID doesn't, and only 5 states that offer an "enhanced driver's license" do), so does a passport, a military ID combined with a record of service indicating you were born in the US, a federal, state, or tribal photo ID showing your place of birth was in the US or a federal, state or tribal photo ID combined with a birth or naturalization record.
Most people will fall in that last category. And most valid birth records explicitly require the record be of the same name. The big question I'm not sure of is if in all the small changes amended to the law by SAVE if documentary proof of United States Citizenship is required to vote or merely to register.
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Proof of citizenship is already required to register, bringing proof to the voting booth is the extra hurdle this act brings.
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Last I checked the federal government cannot tell the states how to run their elections?
Watch them try to tie it to the 15th or some dumb bullshit.
Hell, they just need it in place long enough to bork a single election, right? All it takes is a slow judicial and they can achieve the goal.
I have nothing to back this up but it feels like this would hurt conservative women more than Democratic women? Like it feel more conservative to change to the husband's name, and liberal women usually keep theirs, no?
Not to mention like unmarried women are probably more common in the liberal side? Right?
I suspect its more about creating extra paperwork hurdles to voting. More paperwork means it takes more time investment to be able to vote at all, thereby disenfranchising voters with less free time and Republicans have already done the math on that and enacted voter ID laws in many states because the math works out for them
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Ambiguity, which means that the rules will bend in favour of the priviliged.
Who sais MAGA women shot themselves in the foot? They dont want voting, they like fascism. Same for MAGA men. If they could withdraw from voting and let the king run the country uninterrupted, then they would gladly do so.
I think it'll disenfranchise more Republicans than Democrats.
First, while women are generally Democrats, the married demographic is more right wing. Especially the ones who changed their names
Second, Dems will be way more motivated that Republicans and will be more willing to jump over a hurdle to vote.
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Or else what
Oh happy day when MAGA Karens learn this when they try to vote.
No ma'am, hyphenating your name isn't what's on your birth certificate.
I thought incest was illegal?
Baboon butt face pedophiles.
This being on the horizon stopped me from changing my name from my father's to my mother's last name. A shame. She has a much cooler name.
How funny that they constantly provide more incentive to NOT get married
It's just the first step in taking women's and trans right to vote away. There are other steps too. This is just the start.
And here I thought I was clicking on a post where some MAGA 2nd amendment woman shot themselves in the foot with a gun, not once, but twice.
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So are they advocating for child marriage this time? Can a birth certificate be changed to reflect a married name? Somebody ain't thinking straight
They want all conservative women to change back to their maiden name apparently lol.
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The Handmaiden's Tale has this subplot of a woman regretting of proverbially blowing the misogynists.