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House GOP passes sweeping anti-voting bill that could disenfranchise millions, sends measure to Senate
(www.democracydocket.com)
Could?
Isn't this the intent?
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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.
This is a daylight robbery. Time to respond in kind.
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.
The GOP voted to take away the rights from almost every married woman in the country
No, they didn't. This isn't going to be enforced in heavily Republican districts where women are loyal conservative voters.
Yeah, they did. How it may or may not be enforced has no bearing on whether or not they voted for it. Which they did.
When they need to catch up, or find votes, they will go around removing dem district votes with stuff like this.
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They need to eliminate the filibuster to pass this in the senate. It's dead on arrival.
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?
Dude they won’t even vote, let alone peacefully shut down, let alone take the violent path.
Which isn’t very wise anyway.
Imagine if all those school & mass shooters instead chose corrupt politicians and billionaires...
They most certainly killed a lot of people too. If not directly, then indirectly. Don’t see anything wrong with returning the favor
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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!
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oh wait, I'm living inside the tv show... 🫠
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