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Four Democrats Pass Bill Making It Harder for Married Women to Vote (newrepublic.com)

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[+] [email protected] -16 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

"Republicans, and apparently some Democrats, are still obsessed with limiting noncitizen voting"

Why is this a crazy concept?!

[–] [email protected] 15 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Because you didn't quote the whole thing.

Republicans, and apparently some Democrats, are still obsessed with limiting noncitizen voting, which is already illegal and exceedingly rare.

Murder is far more common than noncitizen voting, but I think we can agree that it would be a ridiculous waste of Congressional time to keep passing bills to make murder illegal.

You've also missed the point of the article, and really the point of the SAVE Act itself.

But the bill will no doubt make it more difficult for millions of people to vote, particularly some 69 million married women who have taken their spouse’s name and do not have a birth certificate matching their legal name.

There are not 69 million noncitizens voting in elections. So even if you think we need a new law to crack down on noncitizen voting, the damage it causes far outweighs the problem it solves.