Cis women, trans people, and abuse victims. Their favourite targets.
this post was submitted on 24 Feb 2026
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It won't stop married women from voting but it just creates a huge pain in the ass plus basically a poll tax. Since you'll have to pay for copies of your birth certificate, plus getting your marriage license, and of course an ID.
Unconstitutional, but this admin wipes it's ass with that document anyways.
It may stop them from voting depending on the requirements surrounding the birth certificate. The format of certain features or seals are not consistent across the US. Local laws in one place may require something which is not done in the place a person was born. My mother deals with that frequently and I had some issues with that previously. Even of she purchased a replacement birth certificate it would still follow the "wrong" format.
Yeah, I couldn't even get photo ID because the state I was born in used a "certificate of birth" and the state I was living in required a "birth certificate".
It took months to resolve the issue and I only got it fixed by doing a surprise 3 way phone call between offices in both states and had to listen to them argue about it for nearly 20mins. Even then I think I only got my ID because the person in my state was fed up and just wanted to go home for the day.
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I could see this as a huge problem as well. Plus, you usually have to go in person to pick up those birth certificates. So you live in Florida but born in California. Now you're making a 2k mile trip to vote. I'm sure there are Mail alternatives, but that's just another barrier to add in.
Does that mean Alabama women are safe?
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I think it'll disenfranchise more Republicans than Democrats.
First, while women are generally Democrats, the married demographic is more right wing. Especially the ones who changed their names
Second, Dems will be way more motivated that Republicans and will be more willing to jump over a hurdle to vote.
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Fascism
and Patriarchy
Seems to me that if your birth name and married name match, this will disproportionately favor people who marry their siblings or other relatives. I wonder what political leaning that particular segment has 🤔
while i get the joke, i just want to make sure it's clear to anyone coming across this understnds that women who elect to change their name in the merital tradition of erasure are more likely to be conservative, and the women who have the documents to prove their identity (like a passport) are more likely to be progressive.
all that said, the focus on how this will impact women, specifically, is frustrating because it's ignoring the biggest groups of people who will be impacted: immigrants and working poor people. we shouldn't tolerate the disenfranchisement of ~30% of women, so we are clear, but we are positioned to disenfranchise ~80% of immigrants and working poor and no one is talking about it. these are people who are less likely to have ANY of the acceptable documents proposed in the SAVE act.
for context, people experiencing poverty are far less likely to be born in a hospital and have a birth certificate, usually depending on a baptism certificate to establish their government name. meanwhile, immigrants may have a passport, but if it's expired that's unacceptable, and a lot of the nations around the world that issued the birth certificates being required by this law in place of a passport can no longer certify birth certificates simply because they aren't existing anymore. i have multiple friends who can't get their birth certificates right now because that would put them at risk of government retribution because they are asylum seekers. for example, my siberian neighbor isn't going to be getting in touch with the Russian government any time soon.
so in conclusion. the aim is to disenfranchise women and minorities. the majority of the women disenfranchised will be conservative. however, the majority of people disenfranchised will be progressive.
and that's no accident.
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How funny that they constantly provide more incentive to NOT get married
Why on earth is a birth certificate used at all for identification?
It's proof of citizenship. But also, here it's a convenient and plausibly deniable way to disenfranchise people who vote differently than them.
Yeah I'm guessing even most MAGA voters don't have a birth certificate handy, and certainly don't have passports. This just disenfranchises MOST Americans.
The enforcement will be extremely selective. We’re talking about Republicans here. They’re not subtle about ignoring the constitution.
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Easy solution, just don't marry anyone with a different last name.
That's how MAGA does marriage, usually
Might go a long way in explaining those long jaws they frequently have
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[Sweet Home Alabama intensifies]
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20-30% of women keep their maiden name after marriage.
Liberal women are roughly twice as likely as conservative women to keep their maiden name.
So yeah, conservative women screwing themselves and also handing a minor edge to liberal women.
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They'll go after each demographic whose voting habits favour democrats: Immigrants, women, educated, non-christian, poor, lbgtq+, young, non-white. Whichever ones you belong to, makes you a potential target of voter disenfranchisement. At he same time making it easier for: old, male, white, Christian, wealthy, uneducated, straight, multi-generational American.
Wait til you hear why they created a “war” on “drugs”!
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Every day that passes, I hate these people more and more.
Won’t matter when he cancels elections cause we are in multiple wars.
Oh happy day when MAGA Karens learn this when they try to vote.
No ma'am, hyphenating your name isn't what's on your birth certificate.
why would a married name match a birth certificate name? or are they saying they only marry relatives? do women change birth certs when married? I am not a woman.
but funny story i adoped my stepson after his mom died. he was 14 or so. he was issued a new birth certificate and the “mother” area is … blank.
When you're married, you give up your voting privileges. Your husband will vote for you. Oh, he only gets one vote of course.
Also, if you're not married, you've clearly shown that you're not mature enough to vote. A public servant will be designated to vote on your behalf.
Not having any form of national ID really does lead to some goofy shit when you need to positivly identify people.
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This is from USA Today. This is where political journalism is:
Will the SAVE America Act pass the Senate? Odds, predictions
The odds of the SAVE America Act passing the Senate and signed into law in 2026 are 12% according to the Polymarket betting odds, and the Kalshi market odds show 13.9% confidence that it will become law.
Betting on me losing my rights is wild.
TBF the betting platforms had higher accuracy than aggregate polls in 2024.
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Looking forward to being a future target for never having married and/or taken a man’s name next!
None of us are safe until all of us are safe.
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Do the Republicans really think they are going to benefit from a requirement that disenfranchises people who don't have proof of citizenship like:
-Women who got married and took their husbands last name
-People who keep getting divorced over and over again
-People who have never travelled outside the US
Bear in mind that the people who are basically guaranteed to have their documents in order are:
-Recently naturalized citizens
-People who travel a lot
-Unmarried women
-People who graduated college
So your local lesbian coven of naturalized middle aged Latinas. They are going to have zero problem voting. Joe Bob the cousin fucker from Alabama who has never gotten more than 20 miles from his trailer park and doesn't believe in "the gummet", and hasn't had a job that didn't pay cash in his whole life? Yeah, that fucker doesn't have a passport.
But hey, at least they are going to stop all the undocumented immigrants who already weren't allowed to register to vote in the first place.
This is going to be like how they attacked absentee voting without realizing that the majority of absentees were retirees and the military.
See, the thing Jim Crow and its "literacy tests" taught us is that you just need a rule that you can enforce on the wrong people, and then you just choose not to enforce it when it's convenient.
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Do the Republicans really think
Not usually
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MAGA women usually are still using their first husbands last name so it’ll suck for them too
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My circles have been discussing this one for a while. Not a coincidence that they are making it more difficult to get a passport.
It's not like it's impossible for such people to vote, but getting your documents in order costs money.
Same for voting on a weekday, voting offices being only in affluent neighbourhoods, voting demanding an ID .....
No money, no democracy.
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Does SAVE require documentary proof of citizenship to vote, or just to register? As I understand it, documentary proof of citizenship is the specific requirement that's hard for anyone who has had a change of name to meet short of a passport or an EDL in the 5 states that offer one.
Basically it changes the types of id that are accepted at voting booths.
When you vote you already have to have registered with appropriate ID to be counted federally. When you show up at the poll this act will change so that only federally issued ID types will be valid. Birth certificates are the most common but if your current name is different than what you were born with for any reason it won't count.
Of these federal id types most of them are opt in varieties and as such are actually more expensive types of specific ID like passports and "REAL ID". A regular old drivers licence as issued by your state won't be good enough anymore even though your name and listed address were verified by the state and already match the name on the voter registration.
Since these id types are more expensive it can make voting the preserve of those who can afford the time and extra money making it a way to disenfranchise economically disadvantaged voters of all stripes .
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I guess all those blue haired feminists that refused to get married or change their last names still get to vote
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Don't worry, they'll only enforce this with Democratic voters
They are also going after Mail-In voting already:
A divided Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that Americans can’t sue the U.S. Postal Service, even when employees deliberately refuse to deliver mail.
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