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This mandates government registration to access an essential right of a citizen in a democracy. Ask for the same thing for gun ownership though and the right would lose their minds.
What’s interesting, is that many of us already do register with the state governments.
Its goal isn’t to regulate voting. It’s to suppress it.
Yep. Very easy to disenfranchise many people this way.
Particularly, anyone whose name or SAAB on their passport or birth certificate doesn't match their photo id. Anyone who works during DMV hours and can't take time off to renew an ID. Especially those who don't drive (and thus don't need a license).
So let's see, that's mainly women, genderqueer, and the working poor. Alright alright.
Who else?
I'm sure that a lot of the unhoused don't have easy access to their birth certificate or passport.
Anybody who cut ties with their parents and can't access this paperwork. So no strong family values.
Oh yeah. The millions of Americans who can't even dream of leaving the country who never even got a passport in the first place.
How is this not a poll tax?
And I'm gonna guess that this is going to make mail in voting more difficult? Or perhaps we will have to verify our ID with an app, this getting all of our info while also removing anonymity from voting, at a time when one party is not just hostile, but downright violent towards members of the other.
How about this...the republicans get to have a poll tax if the Democrats get to have a literacy test. If we are gonna make voting harder, lets make it harder for both sides. Deal?
Obviously that's quite tongue in cheek.
If I recall, any state that requires ID to vote has to give the ID free or it IS considered a poll tax. So this is going to put a lot of expense onto state governments without any federal funding to offset it.
That seems to be a major point of this government. Who is paying for all those national guard deployments, loss of renewable subsidies, SNAP, etc.
Agreed. The goal is to design a system where you must prove your right to vote rather than be allowed to cast a vote with passive validation after the fact. Folks who can't prove their right to vote are primarily low-income voters who are presumed to vote Dem.
As this is not the least restrictive means to accomplish the legitimacy of the election, it does not pass constitutional muster (good luck with the current Supreme Court though). I also wonder how this might infringe on the rights of First Nations (literally completely ignorant here) and states right to administer their own elections.
The big group this impacts is married women — in particular it has a name-matching requirement which will block a large fraction of married women from voting. They're doing this because women have consistently been more likely to vote for Democrats than men:
This makes it very much worthwhile for Americans to ask their Senators to block this legislation by any means necessary.
The goal here is to keep women from voting: the SAVE act very specifically requires that you
Because women often change name when they get married, they'll have a mismatch, and need to spend time and money to be able to vote. If the legislation passes, it will block about 20 million Americans from voting. Because of gender disparities in voting, Republicans see this as to their advantage.
Give your Senators a call at 202-224-3121 and ask them to block this change.
Last election several individuals committed voter AND election fraud. They were all Republicans.
Let’s see ‘em in the comments if you’re inclined to display them.
To everyone saying people needed to wait until the mid-terms to take action: Fuck You.
That mentality pisses me off. Partially because they're definitely going to rig them; but more because thousands of people are dying every week. Thousands are being disappeared. How many folks were sent to CECOT? How many people were grabbed off the street? The ICE abductions were the tipping point and tragically we failed. (It didn't help to have all the libs yelling "DON'T FIGHT BACK!!")
You're going to sit back and hold a zen zone through 2 years of holocaust? Really? The entitlement of those folks is insane.
Who do you think is saying that?
I mean, these guys pay good money for propaganda, I'm sure they have people posting shit like that everywhere to ensure people wait
Fuck the propagandists is a valid position to take.
When the fuck do we just start killing politicians and billionaires? Seriously. Why are we still pretending like laws mean anything in this fucking country?
Imagine if all those school & mass shooters instead chose corrupt politicians and billionaires...
Luigi showed us the way.
They most certainly killed a lot of people too. If not directly, then indirectly. Don’t see anything wrong with returning the favor
It's a disgusting attempt to disenfranchise millions of women and anyone else who changes their name, or doesn't have time/money for the hassle, but it's also only one prong of the attack. The name match requirement would be at the time of voter registration, so wouldn't affect current voters unless..... Massive swaths were purged from the voter rolls - this is a reason why the feds keep suing for voter roll information from states, and why red states have complied
provide photo ID when they cast ballots.
Does this mean mail in voting is dead?
Also, the party of state's rights everyone.
The key requirement in it requires you to have ID with the same name as proof of citizenship. Because women frequently change their name when they get married, it means that they won't have matching documents, and won't be able to vote.
Call your Senators at 202-224-3121 and tell them to vote against it.
Install the app "5 calls." It is free and has no ads. It provides you with the direct phone number for all your representatives and senators as well as curated topics and scripts. You can also set up a weekly reminder to call them and be a pain
The GOP voted to take away the rights from almost every married woman in the country, think about that for a second and you'll understand why they even made the SAVE act.
They claim it's about immigrants, but it's truly about taking away the right to vote from people the GOP doesn't like. So if you aren't a rich, white, male, you cannot vote under GOP rule.
Time for women everywhere to refuse to take their husband's surname when they get married.
My friend changed her name socially, but not legally about 18 years back purely because she was too lazy to do all the paperwork it took to change your name. Now, her husband says it was one of the smartest choices she could have done and I agree.
Here we go. This is how they're going to further oppress the opposition and keep the regime in power. Anything to keep Trump from paying for his crimes.
Well done american voters! And a special shoutout to all the sitouts who stood idly by and let a fascist child rapist in on their watch.
Married women can't vote because the names don't match.
This will skate through the Senate. Elections in the USA won't mean shit after this.
And wtf can be used as "proof of citizenship"
Some paper you lost 30 years ago
Ironically, passports which most non-native-born Americans already own and keep updated constantly because they often travel in and out of the country to visit family and attend events.
It's projected this is going to hurt red states more than blue, since most midwest white-as-fuck Americans who never left their hometown and are scared of the whole world don't have a shred of identification past their driver's license.
Meanwhile, most immigrant families I know have their passports and copies of their birth certificates on-hand at all times.
GOP is scared. They know, short of gestapo-like tactics this November, their days are numbered.
This is a daylight robbery. Time to respond in kind.
This season of House of Cards is thrilling!
grabs popcorn
oh wait, I'm living inside the tv show... 🫠
Well fuck there's that other shoe... I was wondering where I put it
They need to eliminate the filibuster to pass this in the senate. It's dead on arrival.
I'm a Canadian so I don't have to put up with this... but I don't think I could legally prove citizenship on the spot though.
I do have a birth certificate, but it's damaged, and would be considered invalid. It would cost me money to replace.
twist: They look at the ID, proclaim it's fake and add them to the ICE bus waiting outside.