This mandates government registration to access an essential right of a citizen in a democracy. Ask for the same thing for gun ownership though and the right would lose their minds.
What’s interesting, is that many of us already do register with the state governments.
Its goal isn’t to regulate voting. It’s to suppress it.
Yep. Very easy to disenfranchise many people this way.
Particularly, anyone whose name or SAAB on their passport or birth certificate doesn't match their photo id. Anyone who works during DMV hours and can't take time off to renew an ID. Especially those who don't drive (and thus don't need a license).
So let's see, that's mainly women, genderqueer, and the working poor. Alright alright.
Who else?
I'm sure that a lot of the unhoused don't have easy access to their birth certificate or passport.
Anybody who cut ties with their parents and can't access this paperwork. So no strong family values.
Oh yeah. The millions of Americans who can't even dream of leaving the country who never even got a passport in the first place.
How is this not a poll tax?
And I'm gonna guess that this is going to make mail in voting more difficult? Or perhaps we will have to verify our ID with an app, this getting all of our info while also removing anonymity from voting, at a time when one party is not just hostile, but downright violent towards members of the other.
How about this...the republicans get to have a poll tax if the Democrats get to have a literacy test. If we are gonna make voting harder, lets make it harder for both sides. Deal?
Obviously that's quite tongue in cheek.
If I recall, any state that requires ID to vote has to give the ID free or it IS considered a poll tax. So this is going to put a lot of expense onto state governments without any federal funding to offset it.
That seems to be a major point of this government. Who is paying for all those national guard deployments, loss of renewable subsidies, SNAP, etc.
Crash the economy, which makes people afraid. Scared people are more likely to vote for a strongman.
True but you'd think they'd at least want a very different "strongman" than the one who did the crashing.
One would think, but a lot of people are miseducated as to the cause and effect of these things (to put it as politely as I can).
any state that requires ID to vote has to give the ID free or it IS considered a poll tax.
They're just going to not do it. Shrug their shoulders and say "oops, not enough time to implement it but we have to have the election now" and will get a finger wagging from the Supreme Court.
The goal here is to keep women from voting: the SAVE act very specifically requires that you
Because women often change name when they get married, they'll have a mismatch, and need to spend time and money to be able to vote. If the legislation passes, it will block about 20 million Americans from voting. Because of gender disparities in voting, Republicans see this as to their advantage.
Give your Senators a call at 202-224-3121 and ask them to block this change.
To everyone saying people needed to wait until the mid-terms to take action: Fuck You.
When the fuck do we just start killing politicians and billionaires? Seriously. Why are we still pretending like laws mean anything in this fucking country?
Imagine if all those school & mass shooters instead chose corrupt politicians and billionaires...
Luigi showed us the way.
Married women can't vote because the names don't match.
This will skate through the Senate. Elections in the USA won't mean shit after this.
Time for women everywhere to refuse to take their husband's surname when they get married.
My friend changed her name socially, but not legally about 18 years back purely because she was too lazy to do all the paperwork it took to change your name. Now, her husband says it was one of the smartest choices she could have done and I agree.
Why's it smart? I think I'm too stupid to understand
When someone (traditionally a woman) changes her name when she gets married she has to change it with everything, including social security, which is a real pain in the ass. It also means that her “real name” is now different to the name on her birth certificate. So if she tries to use her birth certificate as proof of identity and citizenship, like for this other ID bill, it likely would be denied as proof bc the names don’t match. So she would probably have to get a passport if she doesn’t already have one. Except to get her passport she would probably also need to use her birth certificate or a whole bunch of other stuff. Basically, tho bill doesn’t explicitly say “we want to make it harder for women to vote” but it will cause issues for everyone and women will be disproportionally affected bc traditional women take their husband’s last names
That's actually pretty terrifying. That means a significant portion of the women population will probably not vote.
I wonder how many republican women who take husband's last name compare with the portion of left leaning women who don't take husband's last name.
That’s actually pretty terrifying. That means a significant portion of the women population will probably not vote.
And a significant part of America would be delighted with that outcome. Some of them are quiet about it and don't say it in mixed company; others are people calling for the repeal of the 19th and having fElon retweet them.
GOP is scared. They know, short of gestapo-like tactics this November, their days are numbered.
Sucks that they're capable of gestapo type tactics, then.
Last election several individuals committed voter AND election fraud. They were all Republicans.
Let’s see ‘em in the comments if you’re inclined to display them.
This is a daylight robbery. Time to respond in kind.
And wtf can be used as "proof of citizenship"
Some paper you lost 30 years ago
Here we go. This is how they're going to further oppress the opposition and keep the regime in power. Anything to keep Trump from paying for his crimes.
Could?
Isn't this the intent?
Well fuck there's that other shoe... I was wondering where I put it
It's a disgusting attempt to disenfranchise millions of women and anyone else who changes their name, or doesn't have time/money for the hassle, but it's also only one prong of the attack. The name match requirement would be at the time of voter registration, so wouldn't affect current voters unless..... Massive swaths were purged from the voter rolls - this is a reason why the feds keep suing for voter roll information from states, and why red states have complied
provide photo ID when they cast ballots.
Does this mean mail in voting is dead?
Also, the party of state's rights everyone.
The key requirement in it requires you to have ID with the same name as proof of citizenship. Because women frequently change their name when they get married, it means that they won't have matching documents, and won't be able to vote.
Call your Senators at 202-224-3121 and tell them to vote against it.
Install the app "5 calls." It is free and has no ads. It provides you with the direct phone number for all your representatives and senators as well as curated topics and scripts. You can also set up a weekly reminder to call them and be a pain
I'm a Canadian so I don't have to put up with this... but I don't think I could legally prove citizenship on the spot though.
I do have a birth certificate, but it's damaged, and would be considered invalid. It would cost me money to replace.
twist: They look at the ID, proclaim it's fake and add them to the ICE bus waiting outside.
In this case it literally doesn’t even begin to matter for us because all we need is our voter registration paper that government mails to us. We can bring other stuff but that’s it.
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