Mastodawn

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/

This Bill in the Senate Could Disenfranchise Millions of Women Voters

Trump has renewed pressure for the Senate to pass the SAVE Act, which requires proof of citizenship to vote. For the 69 million women who have changed their last name this would create a barrier to voting.

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Seán Fenian Feb 3

@amydiehl That could backfire on them. I saw it asserted a day or two ago that without white women voting disproportionately conservative, no conservative would have won election in the last century.

I don't know how true the assertion is.

[UPDATE (see below): Looks like it's not.]

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Lucy B

@zakalwe

I believe what was meant by that is that white women are a crucial pivot point. It’s assumed most white men will vote Republican. White women shift more, like independents, and have more effect on elections. But most low educated white women also vote Republican, and so in every presidential election, the GOP wins the white vote overall.