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Infuriated on behalf of my coworker - US push to disenfranchise women (lemmy.world)
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My coworker went to renew her driver's license.

They sent her back, said she needed a birth certificate because she didn't have the star on it yet. She's old and from some small town up north so this took 6 months plus another to get another DMV appointment.

She went back yesterday and they said no, you also need the marriage certificate from your first marriage, the divorce documentation, the marriage certificate from your second marriage and the divorce documentation from that too.

So now her license is expired, and she can't renew it until some tiny vital statistics department far from here responds to her with paper copies of all those items.

I am wildly infuriated.

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[–] -5 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (2 children)

I mean, I know I'm going to get flamed for this, but she's had over a decade to get the RealID license. The system sucks, but we've all had plenty of time.

Edit: Okay, apparently a handful of states weren't certified until a few years ago, but the point is she's had a lot longer than 6 months.

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  • [–] [S] 4 points 4 hours ago (1 child)

    She didn't know because the employee the first time just said come back with a birth certificate so she thought they already had whatever else they needed.

    And this was not needed for voting or driving before. You could just renew & use the license in Florida for driving and voting even though it would not work as ID nationwide.

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  • [–] 0 points 4 hours ago*

    Oh I see. People where I'm from were declaring "mark of the beast!" this and that, so the general assumption was that it would be needed for anything ID related eventually.

    I also can't imagine changing my name and not having all my documents on hand. Just seems like the thing to do. The dmv taking that long is insane though.

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  • [–] 0 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

    Still has more require ments that a man. She should sue.

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  • [–] 1 point 29 minutes ago

    There is an argument to be made that women tend to change their last names while men do not.

    That said, technically this is a legal requirement and has nothing to do with the gender of the person.

    For example, my wife and I didn't legally change our names (thanks to undiagnosed ADHD we just didn't get around to it), but we have actually used our hyphenated names on pretty much everything except some legal stuff. If we had managed to get our names legally changed - I, a man, would potetntially have the very same requirements.

    That said, I would say that this happens almost exclusively to women. But you do have to consider transitioning folks who change their name - or anyone who changes their name.

    So it's certainly up for debate, at a minimum.

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