Time for women everywhere to refuse to take their husband's surname when they get married.
My friend changed her name socially, but not legally about 18 years back purely because she was too lazy to do all the paperwork it took to change your name. Now, her husband says it was one of the smartest choices she could have done and I agree.
Why's it smart? I think I'm too stupid to understand
When someone (traditionally a woman) changes her name when she gets married she has to change it with everything, including social security, which is a real pain in the ass. It also means that her “real name” is now different to the name on her birth certificate. So if she tries to use her birth certificate as proof of identity and citizenship, like for this other ID bill, it likely would be denied as proof bc the names don’t match. So she would probably have to get a passport if she doesn’t already have one. Except to get her passport she would probably also need to use her birth certificate or a whole bunch of other stuff. Basically, tho bill doesn’t explicitly say “we want to make it harder for women to vote” but it will cause issues for everyone and women will be disproportionally affected bc traditional women take their husband’s last names
That's actually pretty terrifying. That means a significant portion of the women population will probably not vote.
I wonder how many republican women who take husband's last name compare with the portion of left leaning women who don't take husband's last name.
That’s actually pretty terrifying. That means a significant portion of the women population will probably not vote.
And a significant part of America would be delighted with that outcome. Some of them are quiet about it and don't say it in mixed company; others are people calling for the repeal of the 19th and having fElon retweet them.
Marriage certificates have the wife's maiden name, and then specify a space for a new surname, just in case someone changes the surname when they get married. I guess the point I am making is that there is a way over the hurdle as long as that info is on your marriage certificate.
For sure, and standard legal name changes give you a certificate of name change, but it's another thing to pile onto the burden of proof for every step along the way. Shit adds up and becomes cumbersome quick.
I'm guessing birth certificate has maiden name and proves citizenship.
Passport has today's name and does the same.
The GOP voted to take away the rights from almost every married woman in the country, think about that for a second and you'll understand why they even made the SAVE act.
They claim it's about immigrants, but it's truly about taking away the right to vote from people the GOP doesn't like. So if you aren't a rich, white, male, you cannot vote under GOP rule.
I wonder how much of the push behind this is from asshole men worried that their kinder wife is secretly voting against the republicans.
I think what's funny is that if they did get that, they'd never win another election again. Literally the only pro-republican voting block is undereducated white men. If you locked out anyone who didn't have a passport, dems would have a supermajority across the country.
Not really they win white woman in whole swaths of the country too. Just not as high, white men it is really high though like 65 pc or something.
This is a daylight robbery. Time to respond in kind.
Could?
Isn't this the intent?
When the fuck do we just start killing politicians and billionaires? Seriously. Why are we still pretending like laws mean anything in this fucking country?
Imagine if all those school & mass shooters instead chose corrupt politicians and billionaires...
Luigi showed us the way.
They most certainly killed a lot of people too. If not directly, then indirectly. Don’t see anything wrong with returning the favor
They need to eliminate the filibuster to pass this in the senate. It's dead on arrival.
Well done american voters! And a special shoutout to all the sitouts who stood idly by and let a fascist child rapist in on their watch.
This season of House of Cards is thrilling!
grabs popcorn
oh wait, I'm living inside the tv show... 🫠
This mandates government registration to access an essential right of a citizen in a democracy. Ask for the same thing for gun ownership though and the right would lose their minds.
What’s interesting, is that many of us already do register with the state governments.
Its goal isn’t to regulate voting. It’s to suppress it.
To everyone saying people needed to wait until the mid-terms to take action: Fuck You.
We have ZERO leadership to capitalize on momentum by people marching and protesting, this is why BLM and No Kings had the highest turnout of protestors in history but led to NOTHING.
This isn't a matter of people being complacent, this is people waiting for a "perfect leader" who will never come.
At least the right is so dumb that they will latch onto anyone, warts and all, to be their "daddy will save us" figurehead. It's utterly broken and deficient on every level, but it becomes actual movement and political capital.
We can't even get liberals and progressives to agree "if it's okay to carry the American flag" and that's why we have lost ALL our ground and why things are going to get worse.
Let me repeat that so you and everyone really get it.
Nobody is coming. It's going to get worse.
GOP is scared. They know, short of gestapo-like tactics this November, their days are numbered.
Sucks that they're capable of gestapo type tactics, then.
Last election several individuals committed voter AND election fraud. They were all Republicans.
Let’s see ‘em in the comments if you’re inclined to display them.
Married women can't vote because the names don't match.
This will skate through the Senate. Elections in the USA won't mean shit after this.
Here we go. This is how they're going to further oppress the opposition and keep the regime in power. Anything to keep Trump from paying for his crimes.
I'm still wondering if this is going to be another case of themselves shooting themselves in the dick.
Most major urban centers and areas with the most electoral value are populated by metropolitan people and immigrants who already are well-used to carrying their passports and copies of all their validating paperwork. I travel a lot and know a lot of immigrant families, they almost all always carry a passport as primary identification (especially right now) and have photocopies of their paperwork and related documents.
Meanwhile, across most of rural, white hicksville America, people often don't even have ID because they never left their town, and those who do may have their driver's license and not much else.
I am really unsure what the administration's plan is here. I figured they would have rolled out a voter ID law that actually helps them.
And wtf can be used as "proof of citizenship"
Ironically, passports which most non-native-born Americans already own and keep updated constantly because they often travel in and out of the country to visit family and attend events.
It's projected this is going to hurt red states more than blue, since most midwest white-as-fuck Americans who never left their hometown and are scared of the whole world don't have a shred of identification past their driver's license.
Meanwhile, most immigrant families I know have their passports and copies of their birth certificates on-hand at all times.
Some paper you lost 30 years ago
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