Called my congressman who voted for the SAVE act.
Me: What documents will I need to vote if this passes?
Staffer: a DL and birth certificate.
Me: The documents don’t match
Staffer: Then a marriage certificate.
Me: Will my husband need the marriage certificate too?
Staffer: No
Me: See the problem?
Me: What documents will I need to vote if this passes?
Staffer: a DL and birth certificate.
Me: The documents don’t match
Staffer: Then a marriage certificate.
Me: Will my husband need the marriage certificate too?
Staffer: No
Me: See the problem?
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Sorry it will have to be enough
A passport is proof of citizenship, and costs $130. It's a essentially a poll tax for anyone who doesn't already have one.
There is NO evidence of non citizens voting. Not a single case.
I’m trans. I transitioned and changed my legal name. could be risky to have to show people an id with a name that doesn’t match my appearance. Hell it’s risky anyway, because folks are getting more intolerant.
People should be free to be themselves.
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The only thru line is they punish women and incessantly feel sorry for themselves …
I WILL NOT change my name because of donald fucking trump.
And in no way should that decision effect their voting rights.
That said, that new law SUCKS.
From now on, woman should NOT take her husband's lasts name. I've never liked that tradition of disowning your father's last name when you get married.
But that's not common.
I hope someday you may solve any issue about it if that's for the better.
But the assumption that there's "more of us" is at the core of the problem. Democrats can insist on it, but reality is something that exists outside the narrative; and who really knows?
There are no solid statistics for how many crackhead knuckle-draggers there are.
Yet.
This just in… shoes have entered the chat.
Under Dr. Pickering when team were still trying to get rockets to go up - not sideways.
Her mom told her to get a bank account: she did.
In 60's.
Wonder how long til women in US can't.
j/k:
[My grandmother Leona Anthony joined her best friend in becoming "flappers" in Logan Ohio - county seat of Hocking County ~ 6,000 then and now - in 20's.
She rocked.
I miss her terribly.]
https://housing.com/news/challenges-faced-by-unmarried-women-while-applying-for-a-home-loan/
Sigh. Powell Memo is the font of much evil.
Of course he has a passport.
Thanks
Jared Golden, ME
Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, WA
Henry Cuellar, TX
Ed Case, HI
https://prospect.org/politics/2024-05-03-house-leaderships-support-henry-cuellar/
https://prospect.org/politics/2024-05-03-house-leaderships-support-henry-cuellar/
I don't think that the Senate will pass this bill anyway.
It is not even 3 months and the US is running towards the hybrid you’re describing.
They’ve ignored multiple court rulings, stupefied universities, rewriting history, deported people, all just because they can.
3 more months and no one can speak out loud.
The next year, 1934, they were mass killing people from the opposition (The Night of the Long Knives).
They did a coup and Trump didn't go to jail for it. At least Hitler went to prison, but the trial was phoney.
Trump pardoned his conspirators. Hitler did the same with his killer thugs.
I just cannot understand how Christian-fascist politics have overthrown almost all checks and balances, with so little effort.
The democrats seem numb, all other countries -except Canada-seem numb, as the orange bully ruins the world.
Sure, the GOP's set of values is worse.
- Promotes slavery? Gilead: Check. GOP: Check
- Misoginy? Gilead: Check. GOP: Check
- Protects the environment? Gilead: Check. GOP: Nope.
And the sex on them has to match too, in practice.
This is also going to make registering the newly-old enough voters more difficult. And how do young people typically vote (if they vote)?
We got them to knock that off.
Likely this means any name changes associated with a gender change won't.
Oh, also, 100% of Republicans are absolute flagrant liars and grifters and cheats.
This is entirely to put women off voting. Full stop.
Women typically vote more progressive. This is 100% suppression.
🤣🤣🤣🤣
NOBODY GOT THAT IT DIDNT APPLY TO THE MEN.
SO INFURIATING!
And hell, I was adopted! If my birth certificate wasn't updated it would effect me, too.
But he bought a New Zealand passport from out R/W govt so he and his husband have a safe and equitable place to go when the US is fucked
The US is sure going to slip down next time they compile a list, now that Trump owns the DOJ, FBI, AG, SCOTUS, and is busy going after law firms and people like Chris Krebs (who had the audacity to say the 2020 election was free and fair).
For people like him, plutocracy is freedom. Not so much the rest of us.
We have see dictators doing this time and time again. It usually ends with blood in the streets.
RIP USA
https://www.congress.gov/119/bills/hr22/BILLS-119hr22eh.pdf
Voting in absentia
The hundred and fifty thousand Union soldiers who were actively fighting to save the country had no other way to cast their ballot
*We* are the party of Lincoln
NOT HARDLY.
They didn't think this through, typical.
Yes their final end game is end democracy.
I apologize.
Also, you have to have the official with the raised seals, plus official divorce or death certificates.
When you get a certain age this task becomes difficult.
https://constitutioncenter.org/blog/understanding-voter-registration-changes-proposed-by-congress-and-the-president
Also legally you don't need to take anyone's last name.
You can also stay married and change back to your maiden name.
So I am up to my 4th surname
My 1st marriage is ********
My 2nd marriage is ******
I’m 68.
They damn well better let me vote
But what surname do the children use ?
Went back to Québec for grad school a few years ago and had a heart to heart with my PI about advantages of keeping my name. She agreed with me.
nowadays ORCID helps disambiguate researcher names, but why make it harder for people to find your work?
I talked with a healthcare provider who had changed her name. she spent > 30 hours trying to prove her identity so she could accept Medicaid patients.
Lots of good reasons to change too, as long as no one is pushing the individual to make that choice.
The problem is America is trying to throw people off the voter rolls, mostly women
There is so much "othering" in the US, black, Latino, LGBTQ, all people.
Come to New Zealand... we like everyone here, even Australians 😅
No offense but Dutton is a supperating wen on the under backside of humanity
In Australia is illegal to NOT vote, you must vote. No fraud. No fraud in NZ either. A couple of cases a time. Fuck all
It’s voter suppression in demographics more likely to vote Democrat.
But Americans should get out more, though 50% with passports is more than I’d been led to believe!
Forcing only one spouse to change their name has always sat shitty w me.
One can be a misogynist and still support gay rights.
Also, refer to Taylor vs Louisiana. It's probably useful here
If the government wants people to provide specific documentation, then unless it makes that documentation free of charge & easily accessible to all, it's abridging that right.
In our disconnected culture it's the only way to signal that we want the same thing, which is what ppl need before mass mobilization.
Visible signals on vehicles, homes & clothing won't cut it if you want to build community - and community spirit & cooperation will be very important for some moving forward.
SSN information's 'supposed' to be highly confidential & accessed only under exceptional circumstances for anyone outside of the agency, though.
This is insane though.
They will notsee the problem here…
And while they say that technically we are entitled to equal pay, our window for suing for discrimination is so short that it's impossible.
They don't care.
Hopefully we can get passports before the next election.
My husband can bring his birth certificate. It matches his ID. He can vote.
I bring my birth certificate. It doesn't match my current ID because I changed my name when I married. I can't vote. I have to get a passport. I heard the Marriage LIcense wasn't recognized ...?
So a passport would be needed- a financial burden.
Is real ID required to vote (in addition to all name change docs, etc?
Voter.
/s
I’d be curious to know the overlap between republicans and democrats who have changed or not changed their names. Maybe there are more republican women affected than democrats…
Are they, though?
Has someone asked them on the record?
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Some people who are not legal citizens have protected status. That's what DACA is all about.
What MAGA Mike and other Rs won't say is that a 1996 law was passed so only U.S. citizens could vote. Undocumented people know it's a felony, & they won't jeopardize their status by voting.
The SAVE Act removes all doubt because unless she gets a passport, she can’t vote.
Patriarchy’s control of women, why are we not surprised?
But just wait, republicans will come up with some other scheme to suppress voter participation.
But: how does the SAVE Act get rid of non-citizens who have voted in the last elections…that is, if they exist.
you don't know WTF you're on about.
and I didn't have my boy circumcised.
3,144 counties and county-equivalents in the 50 states and the District of Columbia. If the 100 county equivalents in U.S. territories are included, the total becomes 3,244.
That's 3244 formats just today. over 100 years?
He voted for the CR cloture, which funds the government for the next 6 months.
The root of you problems is many wanting the government involved in your life where they ( and the church) should stay well back!
Should I then have changed my children's surname?
It is a big mess.
Narrator: they did not
55% of women overall voted for Harris so that's why trump is angry.
But, I can help by paying for a passport for someone who cannot afford it themselves.
We don’t need money in politics. We just need people to participate. https://www.nationalfinancialplan.com
The other issue is this is a Poll Tax. If you don't have documents it will cost you from $50 to over $100 to get the documents.
https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/politics/2025/04/03/michigan-non-citizens-voted-2024-election-jocelyn-benson-voter-rolls-review-drivers-licenses/82791504007/
https://www.michigan.gov/sos/resources/news/2025/04/03/michigan-department-of-state-review-confirms-instances-of-noncitizen-voting-are-extremely-rare
In my state, that's a minimum $401 poll tax, before you even start changing your SSN, bank stuff, etc.
And I don't WANT my birth name back.
**Which makes no sense** bc you can't get a Real ID without that birth certificate in the first place.
To get a Real ID, you have to present CERTIFIED, embossed documents showing a clear trail from your birth name to whatever your name is now.
I had to get a certified BC & marriage license from about 1,000 miles away, plus local divorce & remarriage docs.
My 84yr old mom's trying to go back to see her sisters in PR, probably for last time & she married 2x
I have to get her birth & her 2 marriage licenses
Her 1st was 65yrs ago & they have no record of it except for a picture of the city ledger on historic site
But city? Say it never happened
Some people just assume these records are all going to be intact and retrievable somewhere. Or... that they exist at all. A lot of people from rural families didn't have birth certificates recorded. And natural disasters ruined a lot of paper records.
It’s certainly not in my SSDI budget, but hey.
I bought Betty White stamps when I picked it up.
It's archaic and it will make the men think twice.
But she voted for the SAVE Act.
Well Done On The LIKES🌞
BLESSINGS💚🌞
Of course they did. The idiotic white women that voted for this mess are rearranging their whole face to kiss the ass. It's a small step in favor of giving up your rights.
https://youtu.be/1Ii4Rd-g87o?si=Var4ymYYUXDqpQCA
The President (Trump) was born in NY.
USA Today
Jared Golden @golden.house.gov Marie Gluesenkamp Perez @gluesenkampperez.house.gov Henry Cuellar @repcuellar.govpeeps.us Ed Case Why don't they come out as a Republican already?
WE WILL NEVER FORGET✊️
Or in the UK, he's often called JD Sports, which is a chain of cheap and slightly dubious clothing stores.
There is also no formal process for changing your name. As long as it is not for criminal purposes, you just inform people of what your new name is.
Should married women in the US just revert to their birth names?
Now in USA it wouldn’t make sense to take the spouse’s name for newlyweds.
Real IDs are hard for People adopted as children, people who changed their names (the vast majority of married women), and people born abroad. A friend’s CO real ID took 6mo to sort out
Makes your original comment sound a little disingenuous.
Friend was a veteran applying for CO license after moving from another state.
We've all been registered to vote since about 2000 and had regular drivers licenses.
AKA: Poll tax!
MAGA is so freaking stupid. I’m sure the turn down in the red districts will be 2-3 to 1 in the blue districts.
MAGA Mike and Tronalad Dump 🙄
May these bastards all go to hell.
As soon as possible.
Me: Why not?
Staffer: Why do you?
These three lines would occur regardless if you asked my dad or my mom. They use one credit card, too.
All I ever get is voice-mail.
They will then be branded trans and not only forbidden from voting, but forbidden from travel/escape.
Anything to enslave and control women.
Would they vote for him again, yeah most likely.
General election lasts 6 weeks, not 3 years.
Easy to register & easy to vote.
Polling stations mostly walking distance away and postal voting is easily done.
The elections are not run by politicians but by independent, accountable bureaucrats.
Still need approved ID to vote, council elections yearly.
The only difference is councils are required to provide photo ID when requested by voters but that's contingent on a number of things
Since COVID I use postal votes but they are easy.
The main thing is the electoral workers are independent and non partisan.
The Cons admitted that the point was to disincentivise a certain demographic from voting. 🤷
Some women are...weird about this.
But yes, you do need to provide a proof of name change if your name doesn't match your birth certificate to get real ID.
Meaning marriage certificate, divorce degree, or court order demonstrating a legal
The SAVE Act leaves the procedure for "certain discrepancies in documentation" to the states. So in the unlikely case this passes the senate, states will probably use the same requirements as for RealID.
What's an even bigger problem is that it bans
(That and Red states not accepting name change proof from trans people).
Done.
Some states already have features on DL to determine if it can be use as an election ID.
“REAL ID driver's license or ID card will have a gold or black star in the upper right-hand corner.”
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/04/11/what-is-save-act-2025/83042307007/
I called mine too. And if I mentioned his name, all would roll eyes and wish me luck. BUT, the staffer that answered, was actually a machine, so I got to leave a nasty message directed at him. Said I expected a return call.
Not a chance.😡🖕
be allowed to vote for them.
#women #Trump #SAVE #Posted
Plus the GOP hasn't got a lock on the woman vote so it's time to disenfranchise it.
Thus a permit is a state approved form of ID. A college ID is not.
You have every right to be angry, but orgs can't sue for legislation that is still pending. Ex groups:
https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/aclu-condemns-house-passage-of-anti-voter-save-act-calls-on-senate-to-reject-it
https://act.aclu.org/a/save-act
https://www.americanprogress.org/article/the-save-act-would-disenfranchise-millions-of-citizens/
https://campaignlegal.org/update/what-you-need-know-about-save-act
https://www.democracydocket.com/analysis/the-most-extraordinary-attack-on-voting-rights-in-american-history-how-the-save-act-upends-over-a-century-and-a-half-of-protecting-voting/
This is exactly like their position on abortion: women's health has exactly nothing to do with it. Obviously.
Get one if you can.
(I'm not supporting ir justifying the SAVE act, just answering your question about real why real id isn't good enough for republicans).
https://www.yahoo.com/news/save-act-the-house-just-passed-a-bill-that-would-require-you-to-prove-youre-a-us-citizen--in-person--before-voting-205837479.html
If you're not yet married, DON'T TAKE YOUR HUSBAND'S NAME WHEN/IF YOU CHOOSE TO MARRY.
If already married, INITIATE PROCEEDINGS TO GO BACK TO YOUR BIRTH NAME, and use the discriminatory demands of the SAVE act as justification to the court of your action.
This is an undue burden that cis hetero males do not have to shoulder.
The point is that THEY are making it a person's key document IN THE EYES OF THESE GOVERNMENT YAHOOS. THEY are making it an issue of contention; we're not initiating this as some feminist protest!
I asked about changing my name on marriage. I thought you could pick any surname, as you literally have a Registrar there, so I presumed you just told them. Was v disappointed it was just a his or mine choice.
Lots of healthcare already closing/leaving rural areas. Sure, take voter registration too 🙃
This is what 'making America great again' looks like???'
😬🤧😵💫!!!!
This takes away the states' laws that allowed folks to update their registration online
This is a problem for Trans folks
This is a problem for anyone who changed their name for safety reasons
This is a poll tax on these folks.
It is a problem for many folks with home births that have birth records but not official birth certificates
A government issued Marriage certificate and a government issued divers license is all the match any married person will need to provide identity.
Where did this, "Custom" come from, anyway?
It is by no means universal.
My wife is taking my last name, but that was her choice.
nobody that took their spouse's name should have to spend all that just to be able to vote, and those of us that changed our name by court order shouldn't-
I've known women that changed their name to get away from stalkers.
they don't give a shit about trans people, but that's another valid reason to change names.
it's not just married women. and none of us should have to deal with this.
This is an expensive poll tax on women who vote for Dems by 15 points
They really did not think this through.
Which is the point
as ppl constantly tell me in DMs, "The cruelty is the point"
This was no mistake. They don’t want either of your voices to matter.
What it will do is cause both to unite together against them.
it's the only move I've made to transition, the only thing that seemed doable for where I am. ><
I am working on getting a passport, this bullshit put a burr in my butt to do it.
amending your birth certificate is an option. however, some agencies will horse you around for trying it, mine sure as shit has. I apparently need an amended court order. 🙄
look into it though, if you haven't already.
At least with this, multiple groups push back