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Knut Branson 15h ago

TayFoNay, Sigh-D

So, when I got married I changed my last name mostly because Mr. Nay's surname is super simple and my maiden name is a pain in the ass I had to always spell and nobody could pronounce, etc. At first I moved my maiden name to be my middle name, mostly because I was graduating from grad school, working on getting licensed, etc. and was advised this would make things smoother. I eventually dropped my maiden name and went back to my original middle name. This is what's on my US Passport.

When I voted in the primaries earlier this month, I noticed my registered name was the First Maiden Married, which does not match my passport. You know, the ID I'll need to present if the SAVE act is passed. So I went online and requested a change to my name on the voter rolls. This is the subtle shit a lot of people may miss should that stupid legislation be passed. If I didn't catch it, I would have rolled up in November and been turned away.

TayFoNay, Sigh-D 1d ago

Fun side note: Some people still can't spell the easy married name. But at least it's way fewer letters.

Bill Fellows 1d ago

@tayfonay College friend went from being Stuckenschneider to Wang.

I will forever use her maiden as a test case in programming/data modeling though because she commented that the 80/90s standardized testing cut her name off as the combined last first field on scantron docs was 20 characters.

TayFoNay, Sigh-D 1d ago

@billinkc Amazing

lizzzzard 1d ago

@billinkc @tayfonay my test name is Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger, a German politician.

Humphrey Archer 19h ago

@lizzard
My test name was Anna-maria van Janse van Rensburg. Most software fails with simple German and Dutch names like Maria van der Merwe or Wilhelm von Oppen, which should be handled as Maria vd Merwe, and Wilhelm von-Oppen. They almost always fail with my test name (which is a real person)

@billinkc @tayfonay

lizzzzard 10h ago

@screwturn @billinkc @tayfonay oh, those are great, too. Then we need some Spanish examples. Pablo Picasso's full name is

Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno Crispín Crispiniano María Remedios de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz Picasso

;-)

gizmomathboy, FC 23h ago

@tayfonay to be fair, phonae really isn't that common a last name

Nuwagaba Gift 22h ago

@tayfonay
Is the pronunciation of that name the same with it's spelling?

TayFoNay, Sigh-D 22h ago

Nuwagaba Gift 21h ago

@tayfonay
Cool, can I share with you about my project?

Daniel Johnson 1d ago

@tayfonay Only vaguely related:

It’s kinda nice to have a generic last name. It’s virtually impossible to find me using a web search engine.

I have a cousin who had the same advantage. Her surname was Brown. Then she got married and took his last name: Smith.

Duckbilled Plattypus.22h ago

@ossobuffo
If SAVE passes she will no longer be eligible to vote. You will be able, but not her. How is that fair?

Daniel Johnson 22h ago

@pattykimura She'll be able to vote if she gets a passport right now with her married name on it. The passport office still takes marriage certificates as valid official documents, and U.S. passports are valid identification at polling places.

My wife, who took my name when we got married almost 24 years ago, got a new passport last year, so she is safe too.

I never said it was fair. The SAVE Act appears to be deeply unfair, on purpose.

TL;DR: Get a passport while you can.

Duckbilled Plattypus.21h ago

$165 for your wife to get a passport voting ID is a poll tax married men don't have to pay. With a current wait time of 3.5 months.

68 million American citizens are married women.

77 million US voters voted Trump.

In this serious attack on the right to vote you post an off-topic tone deaf personal anecdote about how fun it is that your name is so common you're hard to google.

Lovely.

Tanek Rune 1d ago

@tayfonay
There's going to be a lot of women rolling up to vote and somehow being surprised that they can't if the SAVE act passes. You know it's just thinly veiled misogyny when none of the state propaganda bothers to tell women to ensure their ID will work to vote.

@Cassandra_Complex @tayfonay
Not only "can't". #usnazi regime prepares gICEtapo to be ones checking your papers at the poll station. Possibly also having some sort of a toy concentration camp nearby.

It is crucial to spread word about the real need to being prepared and sound. Yes, many many many people just do not know as where they work they can't listen to nonmaga content then between first and second gig, or fourth to fifth they have no focus

Thee Mighty Peculia 🍄1d ago

@tayfonay I did the same thing for the exact same reasons. My passport is expired and I doubt if there’s time for a new one to be processed before the midterms, especially the way they’re slow rolling all things official now. It’s maddening how little of this is getting through to the folks who don’t follow politics on the regular.

Pomegranate_Stew 21h ago

@lydialurch @tayfonay
Yeah, really glad we all renewed our passports last year when the polls were looking bad before the election. We’re lucky enough to be able to afford them and were able to get all the proper documents to do that.

This will disenfranchise so many people who’ve changed their names. All for a lie.

Thee Mighty Peculia 🍄20h ago

@pomegranate_stew @tayfonay 💯 😡

This is good advice for everyone.

My name on the voter registration roll does not match my birth certificate name (which I have never used) or my passport (which has my current legal name), because -- despite multiple attempts to correct it -- the voter registration database requires a middle name (which my current legal name does not include).

I leave the middle name blank, but the system carries over the old middle name.

So -- not only do you need the correct legal documents for *you*, you need to hope the voter registration data is correct -- which is not guaranteed.

(I suppose, next time, I'll try "Trew NoMiddleName Hytte".)

Chris L 22h ago

@trewhytte @tayfonay I used to have a hyphen in my last name and I would sometimes get mad at airlines and spell out HYPHEN in the ticket. AUSTINHYPHENLANE.

TayFoNay, Sigh-D 22h ago

@jayalane @trewhytte omg

Sindarina, Edge Case Detective 23h ago

@tayfonay Assholes.

Process "Tedious" Parsnip 22h ago

story time!
My mom moved to a red state in the 80's and when she went to the DMV the clerk there told her she had to use her maiden name as her middle name or she couldn't have a license. She had two children under 5 so she finally said ok and let the state rename her to get her license.

She just last week was finally allowed to change it back so that her driver's license actually has her correct name on it.

Based on her friends, the state did this for decades.

Pomegranate_Stew 22h ago

@ProcessParsnip @tayfonay
What the heck? That is bizarre.

Process "Tedious" Parsnip 21h ago

@pomegranate_stew

Oh, it's only someone's name. If we don't systemize the naming of married women who knows what might happen. </sarc>

The only good thing about the whole situation is their DMV is suddenly being real chill about correcting its mistake, one of her friends got hers fixed in Feb.

But a person would still have to go try again to do this thing they've been told repeatedly they can't do, with no reason to believe it'll go differently except word of mouth.

Workshopshed 21h ago

@tayfonay I suppose this means women are more impacted than men as most countries a married woman changes her name.

TayFoNay, Sigh-D 21h ago

@Workshopshed yeah, the whole point of this is to disenfranchise women and anyone who has legally changed their name.

Richard Rathe 19h ago

"If I didn't catch it, I would have rolled up in November and been turned away."

AS INTENDED!

#GOP Scum Bags are counting on "we the public" not to notice.

But we're on to their various schemes.

#PushBack everywhere. ✊

Defeat the #SaveAct.

#VoteThemOut ! ✅

A friend of mine registered to vote by mail. Somehow the office worker who processed his registration added not one, not two, but SIX additional letters to his name out of nowhere. His vote was never counted. SAVE is designed to make these problems very common and especially for women