He and his complicit republican minions are purposely destroying the country. For what -power? Wealth? Not one republican in congress has any shred of patriotism or morality. It has to stop!!!🛑
I applied for a certified copy of our marriage license in MA today. Very little information was needed. Pretty much anyone who attended our wedding could probably come up with the information required. That and 45.00 How is this more valid than my driver's license? Not everyone has the resources.
Somehow I don’t think Jenny Thomas is going to be okay w/that. Expect Clarence to get an ear full if he even contemplates taking her voting rights away. There would be hell to pay. And MaryAnn will be pretty pissed too! Even though she retained her maiden name. She instinctively understood the need.
How about a system similar to what they have in some states: you can go into any office of the motor vehicle administration & get a photo ID for voting; in some states, for free? Much easier & cheaper than a passport. Also much less illegal (not a poll tax!)
Well one good thing about that. Most the red voters in the red states can’t afford to get one and they probably can’t afford to get their birth certificate either. So I guess they just can’t vote then.
WAIT! WAIT!!!
So US Dept of State issues the magic voting passes they’re planning EVERYONE buy…….
NIT ON MARCH 1, 2025
Trump announces “LOOMING CUTBACKS”??
IDGI
126 and an appointment at the post office to be able to participate in the government is not an unreasonable burden and the solution isn't to block a secure election system the solution is to secure funding to provide fee waivers to the poor and disadvantaged.
With fewer federal workers to process passport requests and the additional cost, he just obliterated millions of mostly blue votes.
Better than gerrymandering!
Criminals!
It's going to cost women even more money and time if they have to legally change to their married name. It will be impossible for many people to get or afford jumping through the hoops. It is a poll tax.
Just an fyi for those that needs to do this..... You can get a Real ID, which is much cheaper, & it also serves as your driver's license. You'll need it anyways if you fly domestically.
There needs to be a movement to help people (non MAGA) get what they need in able to vote in 2026.
I have often felt this way about expecting everyone to have a driver's license as ID. I've been driving for many decades, but I also know many people, often in cities, who do not drive. Surely in 2025 we can make voting easier, not harder.
Not all people. Women, specifically. Poor women, more specifically, who often are women of color. And their votes have typically been the key to putting Democrats in the White House and Congress. The regime is doing its best to stack all the decks against decent people.
I agree but 💩 has not hit the fan yet but eventually it will and that’s when you will need an exit strategy. Unfortunately it will definitely get much worse! 🥹
Call your state reps and see if/how you can help others get their docs and submit them to the right place to expedite the voter registrations prior to the mid-terms.
These four Democrats help pass the #SaveAct
#EdCase of #Hawaii,
#HenryCuellar of #Texas,
#JaredGolden of #Maine
#MarieGluesenkampPerez of #Washington
Time to #vote them #out.
Doogie Howser of Maine hasn’t quite put together that by 2026 passport applications for women will intentionally be slowed to a crawl, and thousands will never arrive in time.
That’s how this barn dance is being run now, and he’s not quick enough on the uptake to get it.
Just wait until USPS is privatized….& w/ Rubio at the helm, he’ll probably add a test for anti-Chriatian bias or something 🙄https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/11/state-report-anti-christian-bias-033535
What makes this even more vile, this discrimination also extends cruelly to all adopted US children, who can't use their adopted name. Also, all on 🇺🇸 expat citizens & their children worldwide, as well as foreign born spouses married to a US citizen who also all pay FATCA double taxes to the USA. 🤬
That’s assuming you can get a passport in time to vote. Imagine all the people they have fired then all the people suddenly applying for a passport, it could take years.
I don't understand why this is a thing in America. I don't know of any other western country that allows you to vote without your ID, some countries even have ID and voting cards. It's not a weird thing tbh to show proof of identity when casting a vote
Big deal? It’s not JUST ID. I have ID. But as a married woman, my ID doesn't match my birth certificate. So, according to SAVE act, I'm unable to vote. UNLESS, I pay $165 for.a passport, wait 4-6 weeks for delivery then bring all documents to re-register to vote. My husband does NOT have to do this.
We already show ID at the polls before we vote & docs when we register to vote. This requires burdensome proof of citizenship, many Americans—especially elderly & low-income. It creates unnecessary barriers to registration, despite no widespread evidence of noncitizen voting.
So is this another opportunity for the republicans in charge to privatize the purchase of Passports? Take over, charge more & pocket the cash? Gauging us at every corner. They steal the election, SocSec, green card holders, our universities and law firms, the quid pro quo rises again.Fear mongering.
This entire admin is completely UNCONSTITUTIONAL!! We know 1st Bud and Russia messed with propaganda and paying voters!
What have we allowed to happen to this country!!!
🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬
$130?? Cost me over $200 by the time I was done with birth certificate, marriage certs, pics, etc. All done from out of state! Time alone was ridiculous! Now that we have less staff?
This is voter suppression! Interesting gop plan! Stop as many of the lower income in society as you can from voting!
It's $130 PLUS tracking down, ordering and paying for needed certified copies, PLUS, for us, $30 for passport photos at the PO plus the hassle of making appts that are a month out but fill up within minutes and taking off work to go.
Well in a few more years getting a passport will be required for everything. You won’t be able to travel to Guam or PR or US Virgin Islands without one. Maybe not even Hawaii or Alaska. Might as well get it now before they raise the cost
Been thinking of people who may want to leave the US for a citizenship in for example Europe. Last time I checked, you had to pay $2500 to give up your citizenship. (I may be wrong on this).
I wonder if it will be possible at all to do this in the future, at least until the next election.(?)
So why doesn’t someone start a GoFundMe page to provide people with the money required to get a passport? How about some multi millionaires or billionaires donate to help people get a passport?
In Netherlands you must have an ID card or a passport from age 12, this year 20 years now. Used for voting and travelling, opening a bankaccount etc.
ID card is +/- 60 euro, passport more.
With an ID card you can travel in Europe, to US need a passport.
Actually the Orange Fat Man is already fucking them, plus they realize they fucked themselves. Everything that they wished would happen to others , also include their dumbass. The consequences of bad voting 🗳. Who knew? Oh,wait, I did.
SENATORS, Do you realize that being military/stationed overseas or an expat or a spouse who took their spouse's last name w/ passport that (OBVIOUSLY) would NOT match one's birth certificate, that would make one's ability to register to vote IMPOSSIBLE? I ask you to take this into consideration.
A very long time ago when I got my drivers license, you couldn’t apply for a drivers license without your birth certificate. No fucking way am I gonna deal with the passport.
Watch the litigation end up with SCOTUS saying "yes but wait until next election cycle to address this" and allow the law to be in effect for Trump to run for his third term.
Unless, of course, unless Obama runs for a third term again.
passport is not the only item that will work, no? BC and ID are good together, if names don't match there is some hoops to jump thru. but it doesn't mean you have to shell out $$ for a passport.
the good news is, the current potus can't run for president again.
Why can’t he? He won twice illegally. Now he controls the people that control making laws, to say nothing of the potential for martial law on April 20th. Thinking this all just “goes away” in 2028 is the quickest way to cement it in place.
Many people either don’t have a birth certificate or can’t find it and would have to pay for a new one. Also, they’re introducing legislation to allow Trump to run for a third term. It also specifically only allows sitting presidents to run for a third term, barring Obama from running again.
It is, who’s going to stop them? $130 is cheap by today’s standards and with inflation by 2026 you won’t be able to afford it unless you’re a BILLIONAIRE!
These imbeciles know what they're doing. Beside the $$$ they know this time around, whoever the Democrat running,it's a lost for them. Musk will help pay for those poor Maggots who can't afford $130 to TRY to secure a win. This sensitive insecure imbecile knows by now ALL America don't love him.
I just received my passport. It was $130 for the passport, $35 for the USPS processing, and $15 for a poorly done photo. If I wanted to “expedite” the process, there would have been an additional fee.
You can get a real ID. However, that requires you to have your birth certificate. Most people, like me, don't have easy access to their birth certificate.
Listen up. You are dealing with imbeciles, like the 3 stooges were acting like. Someone with some brains will tell them to make sure if the card not official government cards from us, they won't be accepted. All my years on this earth, I have never seen or heard of a government out to destroy lives.
And there will be long lines. Passports are official government documents. And thanks to DOGGY, government agencies aren’t functioning well due to lack of staff and funding. Not to mention their mission has changed. “You work for the President, not the public, now.”
Can you see women with limited or no means being able to pay for these? That is what I told HI Congressman Ed Case tonight after he wrote me and told me I was over reacting. I misplaced my birth certificate and had to order it from Iowa.
These impacts will set voters by decades. Hard for millions of Americans, plus 60M people living in rural areas to VOTE!. Driver’s license plus REAL military/tribal IDs is insufficient forms of doc to prove US Citizenship. SAVE ACTBill passed by Rep's House 2mgs ago.
Women RIGHT TO VOTE is in Jeopardy! Your birth certificates don’t match their current IDs because they changed their name after getting married. Upcoming 2026 midterms. We must all step up and get our affairs in order!!
It is sickening. So many Hawaiian women hyphenate their family names. Some I know won't fit on a driver's license. My frickin Congressman voted for this bill and then basically told me I was exaggerating.
And the cost of having to get birth certificate that is in another state if one goes by married name or divorced. Unfortunately more than cost of passport.
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It is much more than that.. Not only do you have to pay the passport fee or the Real ID fee depending on the state but you have to invest time (I bill at 150/hr) and I had to obtain birth and adoption certificates (That took Obama what 3 years and he was president.. Bit easier for me.
Aha, $130 for a passport that “may,” arrive and “may,” be accurate.
Btw, went through this recently, to get a passport, you need a birth certificate and current license.
To get any one, you need a current copy of the others.
But at least we don't need a passport to vote. We don't even need ID, because the rate of voting more than once is so low it has never approached the level needed to influence the outcome of an election. Just turn up, state your name and address, get ticked off the roll, and go and vote😁🇦🇺👍
Also, attempting to deny a person the opportunity to vote is a serious crime. Gerrymandering is closely controlled.
And before anyone gets excited about our compulsory voting, if enough people wanted that changed, it would be.
Last of all, however, we have Democracy Sausages 🤣
The $130 for passport book + $35 postal fees +$30 for passport card + photos+certified birth and marriage license/divorce documents/marriage license. A woman could be into this for nearly $300.
The passport application requires all names previously used. Even though the SSA has this documented.
As Americans Citizens we have rights like voting and obligations like paying taxes.
If you take away my right to vote
I don’t have the obligation to pay taxes.
Holy shit! I have a friend who is a family court attorney and he's going to help me with the paperwork to get my name changed back to my maiden name. It's cheaper than getting a passport.
Well, time to renew my passport. Sadly, many may not be able to renew or maybe may not be able to afford to get a new one. And that is exactly the plan - It's a poll tax against women!! 🤬🤬🤬
I spent last night sending emails to every Secretary of State with a D by their name that if drivers licenses listed a married person’s name as “Jane Smith nee Doe” it would be easier to vote as the name on your license would then align with your birth certificate. Hoping someone makes that happen!
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Only after that gets proven (it won’t ) does any other issue matter.
That should always be the question. With these Jim Crow loving mooks.
Voter suppression on the poor!
Would that be any less illegal?
Or made you vote on X?
You think they are going to let dominion equipment be used?
No it’s going to be totally controlled
So US Dept of State issues the magic voting passes they’re planning EVERYONE buy…….
NIT ON MARCH 1, 2025
Trump announces “LOOMING CUTBACKS”??
IDGI
@bsky.app @safety.bsky.app
Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia
Better than gerrymandering!
Criminals!
There needs to be a movement to help people (non MAGA) get what they need in able to vote in 2026.
You are already in the handcart on the way with this government
Answer to 99% of questions like, "why are they doing this ass-backwardly in the US", is racism.
#EdCase of #Hawaii,
#HenryCuellar of #Texas,
#JaredGolden of #Maine
#MarieGluesenkampPerez of #Washington
Time to #vote them #out.
That’s how this barn dance is being run now, and he’s not quick enough on the uptake to get it.
Why is this such a big deal for people?
What have we allowed to happen to this country!!!
🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬
This is voter suppression! Interesting gop plan! Stop as many of the lower income in society as you can from voting!
I wonder if it will be possible at all to do this in the future, at least until the next election.(?)
The SAVE Act would require all Americans to prove their citizenship with documentation unavailable to millions and upend the way every American citizen registers to vote.
https://www.americanprogress.org/article/the-save-act-would-disenfranchise-millions-of-citizens/
Drivers
Medicare
Social security
Electoral listing...
ID card is +/- 60 euro, passport more.
With an ID card you can travel in Europe, to US need a passport.
People with low income get theirs for free.
Unless, of course, unless Obama runs for a third term again.
the good news is, the current potus can't run for president again.
DOGE isn't "fixing" the government, it is dismantling it.
#Trump isn't "helping" Americans, he is retaliating against them.
Pam Bondi isn't "upholding" the Constitution, she is ignoring it.
Tied up with a red bow
They need to offer passport services for free if they want to pass this law
There is zero reason or proof that providing ID will ever prevent REPUBLICANS from cheating or voting illegally!!
There are the only ones who do so!
Hopefully, most of them are tRump supporters.
🤦♀️Jesus God, WHY???
Btw, went through this recently, to get a passport, you need a birth certificate and current license.
To get any one, you need a current copy of the others.
And before anyone gets excited about our compulsory voting, if enough people wanted that changed, it would be.
Last of all, however, we have Democracy Sausages 🤣
But the most important thing we have that the USA and the UK don't, is Preferential Voting.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranked-choice_voting_in_the_United_States
The passport application requires all names previously used. Even though the SSA has this documented.
If you take away my right to vote
I don’t have the obligation to pay taxes.
Deal ?
@democrats.senate.gov
Johnson - a fraudulent blasphemy of a man!
What would you expect from the folks that supported for Trump?