MAGA Women Shoot Themselves in the Uh, Foot. Again.

https://lemmy.world/post/43540513

So hear me out. Republicans 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?

Yeah. But the hit to potential Democratic voters will make it worth their while.

Essentially women would need to provide additional paperwork in order to vote. Republican women have that paperwork, or can get it easier.

What makes you think Republican women would have an easier time getting that paperwork?

As far as I know, the demographics of passport holding Americans skews slightly left, and more left leaning couples would be expected to have kept their maiden names upon marriage.

What makes you think Republican women would have an easier time getting that paperwork?

money and privilege?

When my wife and I married she only took my last name because her father abandoned her when she was 6 months old, and she wanted to erase that from her identity.
One of my male coworkers at a previous job did the same thing for the same reason, took his wife’s name.
A lot of states have been banning name changes for trans people, I think this was a dumb attack on trans people.
Marginally yes they are, but it’s still more common in my expirence that the woman changes their name still