🚨 🚨 NEW WHITEBOARD How a bill in the House (the “SAVE” Act) Kneecaps Democracy A 🧵 “How bad can it be?” you ask. Truly terrible. Please share this 🧵 so people know. Then take action. ☎️ 1/ - ThreadSky

davidpepperoh.bsky.social • 126 days ago

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NEW WHITEBOARD

How a bill in the House (the “SAVE” Act) Kneecaps Democracy

A 🧵

“How bad can it be?” you ask.

Truly terrible.

Please share this 🧵 so people know. Then take action. ☎️

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davidpepperoh.bsky.social•126 days ago

History demonstrates that the scale and process of registering voters directly determines the health of our democracy.

When Jim Crow laws made registration impossible for Black voters, there was no democracy.

When the VRA reversed that, a pro-democracy revolution followed.

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davidpepperoh.bsky.social•126 days ago

So why do I bring this all up now?

Because Republicans know this history as well as I do. They know that registration of a far greater number (and greater diversity) of the American population served as the gateway to everything else.

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davidpepperoh.bsky.social•126 days ago

And still does.

They know that active voter registration drives, and non-profits and other third party groups registering voters in large numbers, and reforms like automatic voter registration, online voter registration,

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davidpepperoh.bsky.social•126 days ago

and even mail-in voter registration, continue to be at the heart of pro-democracy work.

And that scares the hell out of them.
Which makes clamping down on these reforms and widespread

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davidpepperoh.bsky.social•126 days ago

registration efforts vital to their anti-democratic agenda today—as vital as massive registration efforts 60 years ago and reforms ever since have been in improving and widening our democracy.

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davidpepperoh.bsky.social•126 days ago

This is why, among the first pieces of legislation being put before Congress now that they’re in power, is a cynical, brute force bill that would devastate registration efforts and, over time, eliminate millions from America’s democracy.

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liberalrage.bsky.social•126 days ago

Dem women will make changes. Maga women won't
Oh well.... 😆

annakeesey.bsky.social•126 days ago

The backlog for processing will be years ling. Meanwhile women will be denied the vote.

liberalrage.bsky.social•126 days ago

Women need to start now
I'm waiting on my birth certificate to arrive

annakeesey.bsky.social•126 days ago

Agreed. Tried tell my hairdresser about this disenfranchisement effort and she was incredulous. Part of the problem in getting people to understand the emergency is the utter, brazen, anti-democracy of them. It beggars the imagination.

liberalrage.bsky.social•126 days ago

It does
I am always amazed at the people who say, "But why would they do that?"
Simple...
They want to utterly destroy this country

annakeesey.bsky.social•126 days ago

As Sarah Kendzior says, they want to strip the US down and sell it for parts.

danders5.bsky.social•126 days ago

That may mean not changing one’s name after marriage to keep aligned with the name on birth certificate or applying for a passport (cost~ $120, up to 8 week wait). No other docs apply, i.e. marriage certificate, legal name change docs, etc. Voter suppression gone mad.

liberalrage.bsky.social•126 days ago

Dem women can use it against them if enough of them take care of the issue
What about a passport card?
Those are less expensive

tovangar2.bsky.social•126 days ago

The Felon says he's gonna fix it so we never have to vote again:

https://bsky.app/profile/bobvanbrabant.bsky.social/post/3lin35twvq22c

glevesque.bsky.social•126 days ago

Sort of surprised they aren’t requiring land ownership to vote.

vaqueandconfusing.bsky.social•126 days ago

Obscene

michellesura.bsky.social•126 days ago

Thread. reader!!!!

michellesura.bsky.social•126 days ago

Can you Put your important column into---

skysmom.bsky.social•126 days ago

Submitted my Passport Application last week should this pass. Utterly disgusting that we're here.

auntluly.bsky.social•126 days ago

I’m clueless. Why do you need a passport?

danders5.bsky.social•126 days ago

Certified birth certificate or passport which must reflect your legal name. Cannot use Real ID. The SAVE Act right now has no provisions for women who have had name changed due to marriage, so marriage certificate won’t help.

elainewolfie.bsky.social•126 days ago

The way they will “prove” citizenship is accepting a document with your place of birth in the US or naturalization paperwork.
A passport includes place of birth, a RealID compliant ID doesn’t. 1/2

elainewolfie.bsky.social•126 days ago

2/2 con’t

So if one doesn’t have a passport, the voter registration clerk can accept a RealID compliant ID And Birth Certificate.
… but many will have different names on the two documents.
We must either apply for a passport, where we trace legal name changes Or risk the decision of the clerk.

tulliuscicero43.bsky.social•126 days ago

Because according to the current version of the bill, a passport with a married woman’s married name is accepted as proof of citizenship.

auntluly.bsky.social•126 days ago

Thank you! Guess I’m getting a passport.

tulliuscicero43.bsky.social•126 days ago

Hurry before the Musk brats mess up the passport agencies too. And if you’re trans, apply using your sex at birth and don’t check any nonbinary options or your application will be rejected or simply not processed.

tulliuscicero43.bsky.social•126 days ago

The passport must be current and not expired.

galen1.bsky.social•126 days ago

Because somehow citizenship expires? I just sent in my renewal a couple weeks ago.

tulliuscicero43.bsky.social•125 days ago

There have been reports of trans folks having their applications rejected or not processed.

https://www.advocate.com/news/no-x-markers-passports

anhourofplay.bsky.social•126 days ago

This seems like a great time for married women everywhere to ditch their husbands' surnames.

anhourofplay.bsky.social•126 days ago

And if their husbands don't like it? Divorce works, too.

1moreday.bsky.social•125 days ago

Flip the House Blue to Stop the Suppress American Voters Everywhere (SAVE) Act!

Two upcoming special elections in FL-1 & FL-6 on April 1 can create deadlock with 50-50 party split in House. Third special election in NY-21 can Flip the House Blue!

#BlockSAVEact
#FlipCongressBlue

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