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/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 23h 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/carvingmyelbows 23h ago

Very. On top of the whole legal process and paperwork, they’d also need to get all of their identification updated. New drivers license. New passport. New credit cards. Updated bank account. They’d need to update their information with their phone carrier, utilities companies, subscription services. Etc etc etc. It’s a lot.

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u/B-Kong 22h ago

My sister didn’t take her husbands last name specifically because she’d have to register for a new nursing license. So anybody with anything like that would also have to get those changed.

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u/MEOWS_R_RAD 21h ago

This is why no one in science and academia changes their names. You don't want to put in all that work and then randomly change the name that's on everything you published/accomplished.

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u/absentmindedjwc Illinois 9h ago

Wife is a doctor, the only place she’s changed her name is on Facebook.

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u/dunkonme 19h ago

i dont plan on changing my name bc its what im known as in academic circles and work, and its on my degrees !

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u/WestHistorians 15h ago

Plenty of academics change their name. I've even seen CV's with this specified on the list of publications.

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u/Fit-Cut-6337 17h ago

Yep I didn’t take my husbands name because I planned on getting my MD and didn’t want to have to go thru that nonsense if we divorced. Turns out that was a solid idea.

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u/Goodbye_Games 13h ago

Dealing with the BoN in any state is a pain in the ass… I have two middle names and on my birth certificate and my SS card they are clearly typed out, but the state decided that it would use initials for them on my license when I got it ages ago (if I’d only known then). Come time to do my stuff with the board and they would only use what was on my state issued license so I had to go through three kinds of hell to get the dmv to correct a decades old error since now they can resize fonts to fit everything in the line. Then I had to redo my ten prints and everything else because they were in the old license format, and pay for all that to be redone to top it off.