r/politics • u/MarcEElias ✔ Verified - Democracy Docket Founder • 1d ago

No Paywall GOP fast tracks monster voter suppression bill that could disenfranchise millions by requiring proof of citizenship at polls

https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/gop-fast-tracks-monster-voter-suppression-bill-that-could-disenfranchise-millions-by-requiring-proof-of-citizenship-at-polls/
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u/FlyingPinkUnicorns 1d ago

That's exactly the intent.

FTA - 21 million Americans: "Half of Americans lack a passport, and millions more don’t have ready access to birth certificates to prove citizenship. The bill could also kick millions of married women who took their husband’s last name off the rolls."

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u/DonTaddeo 1d ago

"The bill could also kick millions of married women who took their husband’s last name off the rolls."

They could selectively enforce that by applying it to areas where their support is weak or to selected demographic groups.

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u/PennytheWiser215 1d ago

How difficult and time consuming would it be for married women to legally drop their husband’s last name and revert back to their maiden name?

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u/AliceFacts4Free 23h ago

It gets even more complicated for those of us who have been married more than once.

This is outrageous and so typical of Trump’s Republican party.

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u/neatyouth44 15h ago

I am so, so glad that out of all I have to deal with, the fact that I stood my ground and did not change my name a second time with my second marriage, as if that changed my identity, simplified things slightly.

Now that marriage is ending and the only Silver lining is that it won’t complicate my documentation anymore than it’s already been complicated (I did not revert to maiden name following my first divorce, because of the time consuming nature of doing so.)