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🅰🅻🅸🅲🅴 (🌈🦄)Feb 4

The SAVE act targets people who've changed their name *for any reason*. Ya know who's done that?

- Married women
- Trans & nonbinary folx
- Immigrants

You know which US citizens that leaves?

Mostly white men.

The SAVE act isn't trying to save anything other than patriarchy and fascism.

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Amy Diehl, Ph.D. (@[email protected])

SAVE Act would require birth cert or passport that matches voters legal name. 69M women may have a legal name that doesn’t match their birth cert. An estimated 21M would be turned away at polls. This act is an attempt to disenfranchise women voters. https://www.thepersistent.com/this-bill-in-the-senate-could-disenfranchise-millions-of-women-voters/

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Eggs now in different baskets.Feb 4

@alice @amydiehl That also means the end to witness protection schemes.

How do you deal with an asylum seeker without papers? There is no birth certificate or passport to be found particularly in countries where civil society and the system of keeping of public records has broken down.

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Zimmie Feb 4

@the_wub @alice @amydiehl People with new identities courtesy of witness protection get birth certificates for their new names.

Very few countries allow asylum-seekers to vote in national elections at all, regardless of how well-documented they are. If one becomes a US citizen, they get a certificate of naturalization, which is explicitly listed as acceptable proof of citizenship in the bill.

This proposed law is awful, but those two specific concerns aren’t affected either way.

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Eggs now in different baskets.

@bob_zim @alice @amydiehl Thanks for the clarification.

What I would be concerned with is that such new laws are often drafted in haste in the ideological fervour of the moment

Those that end up drafting such laws will either deliberately or just due to a complete lack of imagination and empathy create a whole host of additional situations where peoples' identity can become a problem for them.

Even for those who are already citizens of the US*.

* insert country of your choice.