If you are an American married woman (or any gender person who has changed their surname legally) you need to be aware of this NOW. You may lose your right to vote if you don’t prepare. https://www.glamour.com/story/save-act-could-stop-millions-women-voting
Not an exaggeration, not hyperbole. Millions of people, mostly women, turned away to vote.
Thank you for sharing this info. I had not heard of this before.
A good moment for me to make my (generally futile) reminder that a #MarriedName is an #AdoptedName / #AssumedName that is recognised by tradition and convention, and is not the same as a #LegalName.
If one obtains a #LegalChangeOfName there are additional filings (and sometimes fees, affadavits, etc) with the local #VitalStats / #Registries office, which will also result in an amendment to the name on any #BirthCertificates issued thereafter.
I apologise that I don't have an exact cite at hand, but I recall learning about things such as inter-operability agreements (for provincial/territorial/state drivers' licenses) that apply across the USA and Canada.
And those documents in turn rely on foundational ID documents such as #BirthCertificates, #CitizenshipCertificates, etc.
IIRC this is a treaty-level agreement so not simple to ignore.
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Respectfully, this administration and those of red states have little respect for international treaties.
Specifically, this SAVE act is wholly focused on US voting eligibility, and finding any reason to restrict it to anyone whose documents are not in order.
I respect your research. Those in power are looking to use “common sense” as an excuse to disregard any buried legal nuance. They will demand all these documents line up as a barrier.
Correct. Names on birth certificates are only amended after a legal change of name process (whether a paperwork application or court process).
I mention my reminder is 'usually futile' because yes, married people *are* typically granted use of marital names *as if they are* legal names, but if you read a jurisdiction's documentation, they normally distinguish between recognising assumed (married) and legal names.
There was a video AOC put out earlier this week. She mentioned that ppl who watch the fake Fox news call/contact their reps about an average of 8 times more than any other party. The contact/calls measure the public motivation....meaning more motivated voters come election time. She also mentioned if you're in a red state our voices matter the most. I have been making calls all week to all my GOP (🤮) reps. I use the scripts from 5 calls.
@hacks4pancakes Gerrymandering but next next level and on personal level.
What’s the most legal way to start a facial regime? Prevent people with wrong opinions to vote via legal changes. And interpret laws in a way that a president is immune regardless what they do at the office. (Remember how one president was on trial over having sex at the office - those were the days I miss, that was much much closer the level of accountability governing should have. )
Republicans have been working on disenfranchisement schemes for decades.
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/08/john-roberts-voting-rights-act-121222/
Bradley Foundation funded the overturn of the Voting Rights Act by corrupt Supreme Court Justice John Roberts.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/amp/nation/50-year-war-on-drugs-imprisoned-millions-of-black-americans
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felony_disenfranchisement_in_the_United_States
The "War on Drugs" was a mass incarceration & felony disenfranchisement scheme targeting black & brown voters. Over 7 million Americans can't vote as a result.
https://www.propublica.org/article/dark-money-leonard-leo-barre-seid
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Barre Seid funded a $1.6 billion campaign to overturn Roe vs Wade.
The GOP are well underway to making contraception & abortion into another mass felony disenfranchisement scheme.
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/05/10/ramaswamy-raise-voting-age-00096266
The GOP wants to raise the voting age to disenfranchise the young.
https://www.propublica.org/article/league-of-women-voters-gop-trump
The GOP spurns the League of Women Voters.
GOP shills like Nate Silver & Ann Coulter promote lies that universal suffrage ruined America.
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https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/incels-abortion-rights-bodies-under-siege-sian-norris/
Tech bros & incels promote ideology advocating for a "women as property" legal framework.
https://www.axios.com/2024/07/13/gender-gap-ufc-abortion-2024-election
And it's contagious.
https://www.economist.com/asia/2024/06/27/meet-the-incels-and-anti-feminists-of-asia
GOP billionaires want to get rid of "one person, one vote" elections.
https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/11/05/one-person-one-vote-one-joke-on-democracy/
It's a war on women
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_on_women
https://indivisible.org/resource/unmasking-maga-exploring-gops-war-women-womens-history-month
https://newrepublic.com/article/186160/republican-war-women-extends-voting-rights
A well-funded war
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/05/11/gop-attack-women-funded-corporate-america
Have you tried getting official copies of the documents that your ex has?
@sarah_geri @hacks4pancakes REAL ID in Illinois just adds a star and removes some text.
@sarah_geri @hacks4pancakes In 2020 I also had the opinion that the relaxed rules for implementing it effectively made you a Sneetch.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sneetches_and_Other_Stories
@wagesj45 @hacks4pancakes
> But the SAVE Act requires the person also submits “other evidence” to election officials to prove that they’re a U.S. citizen.
>The Election Assistance Commission and the individual states would determine what “other evidence” a person could use to prove their citizenship.
IOW, “the right sort of evidence, from the right sort of people.” Chip Roy just introduced Jim Crow, part 2.
fucking ridiculous
omg- family voting 😬
@hacks4pancakes - so much of American law around elections and the right to vote are so anti-democratic. The almost standard registration in preparation for every election is an senseless barrier to voters.
How can a country that works so actively to discourage or disallow eligible people to vote be considered a legitimate democracy?
Here in AUS we are sent a letter by the government just before we turn 18 and told to register to vote. Completing the form completes registration to vote in all three levels of government - Local government, State Government and Federal Government. Once that is done the only time you need to renew is to change details when you marry or move to a different address.
@hacks4pancakes love how the “we should leave things to the States” people immediately propose stripping power from States when they have Federal control. And it’s always about maintaining that control, never about trying to make people more free or better their lives.
If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal. They've already rendered it pointless.
The choice between a genocidal maniac and a bigger genocidal maniac shouldn't be seen as a real choice.
@hacks4pancakes another thing that applies specifically to many elderly and disabled folks: my relative is not online, at all. She never learned how; my father of blessed memory handled anything that had to be done online. She does everything by either mail or in-person visits (for example to her local bank). Some disabilities also impede online navigation, especially given the crappy state of accessibility in some corners of the Internet.
People in this position will, with this bill, need to do a lot more running around physically in order to meet the prereqs before they can (again) run around to handle voter registration in person. Some of that running around will need to be through programs like ACCESS. Quite the burden! Does this bill have provisions for assisting people in getting those documents? Yeah, I thought not. Quite ridiculous when people already *have* authenticated ID (that they might have to show when voting).
when i got my ReadID i had to get paperwork from counties i hadn't lived in for decades it took weeks to gather the paperwork
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