So I heard a good response to why the Republicans will want the Save Act to fail.

[Baitball Blogger]

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According to the Save Act, your birth certificate and current name must match, which means that women will be at a disadvantage. Our side is worried about this because it will directly affect women who married and changed their names. The only sure way around this is if you have a passport ID.

But some astute person on the net says that this is unfavorable to the Republicans, because more Democrats than Republicans carry a passport. The blue States, in other words, will be impacted less than the Red States, which will, in essence, disenfranchise their own trad wives.

Interesting to think about, anyway.

[underpants]

1. 🤔 Gee, they didn't seem to think this one out

[ChicagoTeamster]

16. They don't think anything through.

[MLWR]

23. RepubliSCUM don't believe that the law of unintended consequences applies to THEM.

[UpInArms]

2. I am looking forward to having all the MAGAt women around me losing their votes

I realize that is mean and petty.

I could only wish that any of you had experienced the level of hate that has been directed at me from them. You might understand my point of view, were you me.

Thank you for putting up with my liberal ways and giving me a place where the constant vitriol is not poured upon me in an unceasing way.

[RainCaster]

3. trad wives change their name more often

Dem wives are more inclined to keep their last name.

[AZJonnie]

12. I was going to say the same thing

Also, this change is likely to cause a LOT of women to reconsider doing so in the future as well. Most liberal men don't mind one bit if their partner wants to keep her maiden name. Right-wing men are much more likely to care if they don't.

[thought crime]

14. We used my wife's (better) surname for our kids.

Among other things, her surname begins with a 'D' while mine begins with a 'W'. Our grownup kids are pretty grateful.

[FalloutShelter]

4. SHOCKER!

Even MAGA women don't want to jump through their Nazi hoops and to obtain a passport to vote?

I'm old enough to remember when you got a passport to see Paris ... not the voting booth at the local church hall.

This is some bullshit.

The PAPERS PLEASE ACT... has to go down in flames.

[Wednesdays]

22. In normal times, it would be a slam-dunk loser in the courts

...as a new form of poll tax.

But with this SCOTUS, ya never know.

[peggysue2]

5. I hope this is true and the SAVE ACT dies a miserable death

The whole idea is just another plan to reduce women to second-class citizens firmly under the thumb of the men in their lives. Less higher education, early marriages from which there is no escape (tighten up divorce law) and grinding out as many babies as possible. No contraception. No abortion, of course. And no way to vote scum-bags out of office.

Happy Days!

[usonian]

6. Easy to get papers. Know Rick!

[TBF]

7. Progressive women (and probably others as well) -

are already talking online about reverting to our maiden names. We will change them back through the courts, update our passports, and on we go. I already talked to my husband about it and he doesn't care.

[NH Ethylene]

9. That might be the easiest way to proceed.

Especially for women who have been married several times, changing their last name each time. They would have to provide marriage certificates and divorce decrees to complete the chain of name changes.

[TBF]

10. I have everything in my lock box -

will probably be a little annoying and time consuming, but I'm ready.

[Walleye]

8. I am still curious to know what JD Vance's birth certificate name is

If we need a photo ID after we have registered why doesn’t the state issue photo registration cards. When I registered they sent me a registration card which I use at the polls every time. Put a photo on that and we got it made. Howis someone such as me, who’s been voting in the same polling place for 30 years supposed to prove she’s an American citizen right now. The people working the polls there recognize me!

[SSJVegeta]

11. Also more Democrats than Republican women are likely to keep their maiden name in marriage

😒 🤔

[Quiet Em]

13. Republicans also seem to think that only Republican women get married.

They think Democratic women are all single cat ladies.

Thankfully it looks like this horrible bill will never make it through the Senate.

The only reason they are even pushing this is because the con artist will not admit he lost the 2020 election and the con artist will try everything to cheat and steal elections.

[F-18_AMO]

15. Valid Point

Rethugs know that most Americans don’t have a passport. The impact on those who don’t have one or can’t afford one should not be underestimated. The fascists are looking at the midterms and not really beyond that because they won’t need to.

[Zackzzzz]

17. Back then, people would look at you strange if you said

that you wanted to keep your maiden name.
It just wasn't accepted.
I was happy to change my name because people always mispronounced it and
then they would say, "Oh, you must be .....", fill in a nationality, which I wasn't.
Anyway, nationality was a part of the conversation I never wanted to go to.
But then people mispronounced my new married name, etc.

[Exp]

18. Republican women might be more inclined to take their hubby's names, too. nt

[sdfernando]

19. Its possible the MAGATS are worried about this aspect of the Save Act,

but a lot aren't because they don't think women, any women, should have the right to vote.

[ProudMNDemocrat]

20. As Home Simpson would say.....

Dumb MAGAts!

[jgmiller]

21. They really just want the optics of them pushing it and it failing

This just helps their narrative when they lose the election that it was rigged.

[durablend]

24. I thought that too.

[Buckeyeblue]

25. I also think more Democratic women didn't change their last name when they married

My wife didn't. We talked about it and decided it's a weird tradition. We're married, not related, so why would want to share last names. We both have family members who send her mail as if she had changed her. We just laugh.