"Trump and Johnson's Shocking Bid to Suppress Women's Votes" by Thom Hartmann

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The GOP’s desperate election ploy: disenfranchise women to win…

https://hartmannreport.com/p/trump-and-johnsons-shocking-bid-to-1f1


Republicans don’t want women to vote. They now think they may have a strategy that could help make that happen.

House Speaker Mike Johnson and former president Donald Trump were pushing the SAVE Act (Safeguard American Eligibility 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).

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And what will the law require citizens who want to vote do? Lacking a passport or other proof of citizenship with their married names, they must produce both a birth certificate (with the seal of the state where it was issued; no copies allowed) and a current form of identification — both with the exact same name on them. That could instantly disqualify about 90 percent of all married women without passports or other proof that matches their birth certificates or proof of a legal name change.

For women in that situation, they can still register to vote if they can prove that they went to court to change their name when they got married, but most women just start using their new married name without ever going through all those formalities (although a few states recognize marriage as a legal name change).

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Emphasis is mine.