The GOP Save Act would disenfranchise married women if they took their husband’s name. Their current ID wouldn’t match their birth certificate. Most women vote Democratic... (newrepublic.com)

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Most women vote Democratic. And most still change their name when they marry. And that’s where the GOP sees an Achilles’ heel.

September 19, 2024

Republicans don’t want women to vote. They now think they may have a strategy that could prevent them from doing so. House Speaker Mike Johnson and former President Donald Trump were pushing the [Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act], or SAVE Act, demanding it be part of must-pass legislation to fund the federal government for another year (the funding runs out at the end of this month, and then the shutdown begins).

It died in the House Wednesday night, but, like a bad penny, you can bet it’ll return.

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I fixed a typo in the text.

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[-] DragonBallZinn@hexbear.net 45 points 9 months ago

Not to be too much of a lib, but this is why I push back on the “if voting changed anything they’d make it illegal.”

Because they’re making it illegal.

[-] regul@hexbear.net 38 points 9 months ago

Here's what voting changes: who gets to control the graft machine.

You can't give your buddy lucrative no-bid contracts if you don't control the right levers.

They're fighting very hard to keep themselves in their cushy jobs where nothing is expected of them.

[-] Infamousblt@hexbear.net 3 points 9 months ago

But watch as one side pushes the agenda and the other side allows them to do it in the name of "compromise." This is why voting changes nothing. You can vote for the people doing the bad thing or you can vote for the people shaking their hand while they do it. There is no difference.

[-] BobDole@hexbear.net 40 points 9 months ago

the Safeguard American Eligibility, or SAVE Act

They can’t even backronym right anymore.

[-] AernaLingus@hexbear.net 41 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

The writer accidentally a whole word (it's the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act)

[-] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 32 points 9 months ago

I thought I might be to blame in my fat fingered copy-and-pasting. Nope. The glory is all theirs. And that article has had that mistake for 4 days.

[-] BobDole@hexbear.net 22 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Thank you, comrade.

The literal state of Western “journalism”

[-] came_apart_at_Kmart@hexbear.net 38 points 9 months ago

this is a hack bit, but I love American law acronyms, because they are so wildly against the title.

like they could draft legislation called the Save Our Schools Act (SOS) and the executive summary would be about how the legislation turns every school in America into an artillery free fire zone and authorizes the military to drone strike every teacher in the US .

[-] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 33 points 9 months ago

I HATE CONGRESSIONAL ACRONYMS SO MUCH

HERES THE NEW FEDERAL BORDER AERIAL SURVEILLANCE TO ASSIST RECONNAISSANCE DRONES ACT

EVERYBODY CLAP FOR THE FEDERAL BASTARDS ACT

open-biden

[-] tactical_trans_karen@hexbear.net 21 points 9 months ago

Sounds like they really want to encourage people to watch Adventure Time and play Minecraft.

[-] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 18 points 9 months ago

vote

[-] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 37 points 9 months ago

I can imagine a future comment in r/politics...

"Look, InevitableSwing - your negative comments aren't helping at all, okay? In 2021-22 the dems had unified control and they did in 2025-26 too. Yeah, we heard you. But they didn't 'do nothing' as you suggest. They did a highly impressive amount of work. Yes, they weren't able to pass federal election laws. They can't do everything. And now in 2029 we have President Barron because the conservative justices lowered the minimum age to be president. As for packing the court - that wasn't practicable. We have President Barron and we just have to deal with that."

"And stop saying 'Voting doesn't matter.' The GOP passed their SAVE Act. This is not a time to quit. Millions of woman can't vote in the 2030 midterms. We have to work around because it's the most important election of our lifetime..."

I can't reply because I was banned for the 27th time.

[-] newmou@hexbear.net 3 points 9 months ago

Like a bad penny? Lol ok

[-] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 1 points 9 months ago

I think when I was a boy in the 1970s that was already dated and it had a old-timey vibe. I couldn't have imagined somebody like Steve McQueen using it. But James Cagney in a black and white movie - sure.

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Maybe the writer doesn't realize how dated it is because one of his parents has a fondness for it. Or maybe it's a regional thing.