Easy solution, just don't marry anyone with a different last name.

Seems to me that if your birth name and married name match, this will disproportionately favor people who marry their siblings or other relatives. I wonder what political leaning that particular segment has 🤔

20-30% of women keep their maiden name after marriage.

Liberal women are roughly twice as likely as conservative women to keep their maiden name.

So yeah, conservative women screwing themselves and also handing a minor edge to liberal women.

Why on earth is a birth certificate used at all for identification?

This is from USA Today. This is where political journalism is:

Will the SAVE America Act pass the Senate? Odds, predictions

The odds of the SAVE America Act passing the Senate and signed into law in 2026 are 12% according to the Polymarket betting odds, and the Kalshi market odds show 13.9% confidence that it will become law.

Does that mean Alabama women are safe?

My circles have been discussing this one for a while. Not a coincidence that they are making it more difficult to get a passport.

Do the Republicans really think they are going to benefit from a requirement that disenfranchises people who don't have proof of citizenship like:

-Women who got married and took their husbands last name
-People who keep getting divorced over and over again
-People who have never travelled outside the US

Bear in mind that the people who are basically guaranteed to have their documents in order are:

-Recently naturalized citizens
-People who travel a lot
-Unmarried women
-People who graduated college

So your local lesbian coven of naturalized middle aged Latinas. They are going to have zero problem voting. Joe Bob the cousin fucker from Alabama who has never gotten more than 20 miles from his trailer park and doesn't believe in "the gummet", and hasn't had a job that didn't pay cash in his whole life? Yeah, that fucker doesn't have a passport.

But hey, at least they are going to stop all the undocumented immigrants who already weren't allowed to register to vote in the first place.

This is going to be like how they attacked absentee voting without realizing that the majority of absentees were retirees and the military.

Fascism

Looking forward to being a future target for never having married and/or taken a man’s name next!

None of us are safe until all of us are safe.

Not having any form of national ID really does lead to some goofy shit when you need to positivly identify people.

If your name doesn't match what's on your birth certificate, look into whether your state allows you to change your birth certificate and do it before it's too late. My name is not my birth name or my married name, I had it legally changed. I got tired of hauling around my birth certificate, marriage certificate, divorce paperwork, and legal name change to show the paper trail that I both was who I was and was no longer legally married. Turns out in my state I just had to send in a notarized form, copies of my paperwork and pay small fee and I got my birth certificate updated to my current name. Now I can "prove" who I am by just showing my birth certificate and ignore the fact that I was married and changed my name. It also made updating my passport easier. Granted, I am not trans, but I did it last year and they had the option to change gender on the form.

I guess all those blue haired feminists that refused to get married or change their last names still get to vote

It's not like it's impossible for such people to vote, but getting your documents in order costs money.
Same for voting on a weekday, voting offices being only in affluent neighbourhoods, voting demanding an ID .....

No money, no democracy.

Don't worry, they'll only enforce this with Democratic voters

Won’t matter when he cancels elections cause we are in multiple wars.

So hear me out. Conservatives are more likely to take someone's last name than a liberal couple right? Doesn't this disproportionately disenfranchise Republican women? Could this potentially actually harm the Republican vote?

Wait, this is even dumber then it looks like. Under this crap unmarried women will be unaffected but the more traditional marriage types will be hooped. So this will remove the "trad" wife votes but not touch the ladies in say the local polycule. Gee I wonder if all the single/divorced women will be more or less likely to vote for the red party?

They are also going after Mail-In voting already:

A divided Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that Americans can’t sue the U.S. Postal Service, even when employees deliberately refuse to deliver mail.

https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-postal-service-missing-mail-7ce97a5b7d56373cdeaa6ecc9a9132f5

MAGA women usually are still using their first husbands last name so it’ll suck for them too

Every day that passes, I hate these people more and more.

why would a married name match a birth certificate name? or are they saying they only marry relatives? do women change birth certs when married? I am not a woman.

but funny story i adoped my stepson after his mom died. he was 14 or so. he was issued a new birth certificate and the “mother” area is … blank.

"Don't get married, women. Or you no longer have the right to vote!" -- MAGA, apparently

Cis women, trans people, and abuse victims. Their favourite targets.

I'm worried that this is a distraction to introduce a similar, but somehow less widespread bill. Like "oh boy, yeah this would disallow more women than intended to vote. Here's the new bill that only disallows people with unmatching first names to avoid voter fraud (or whatever)." ...And thus trans people can't vote.

I’d be willing to bet this will disenfranchise more republican women than democrat women. Democrats are way more likely to have a passport

It won't stop married women from voting but it just creates a huge pain in the ass plus basically a poll tax. Since you'll have to pay for copies of your birth certificate, plus getting your marriage license, and of course an ID.

Unconstitutional, but this admin wipes it's ass with that document anyways.

Does SAVE require documentary proof of citizenship to vote, or just to register? As I understand it, documentary proof of citizenship is the specific requirement that's hard for anyone who has had a change of name to meet short of a passport or an EDL in the 5 states that offer one.