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Monday, March 31, 2025

They see the election results, and they know women are a threat to their majority. The U.S. House of Representatives will vote this week--as early as Tuesday--on the bogusly named SAVE Act. The so-called Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act would make it really, really hard to register to vote, especially for women.

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There are so many layers of voter suppression built into the SAVE Act that you could call it the foundational structure.

Voter Suppression Challenge #1: You have to schlepp to whatever agency oversees your state's voting with your documents. This means no more voter drives or online or mail-in registration. It also presents a real-world challenge. More than 60 million rural voters will have to drive an average of 260 miles simply to exercise their constitutional right to vote. Meanwhile, urban voters, who often don't own cars, will be forced to commute upward of two hours on public transportation.

Voter Suppression Challenge #2: You need to possess what the Republicans deem a valid form of ID. Sure, the letter of the act lists five legitimate forms of identification but most forms of government-issued identification don't list your birthplace. Scratch your REAL ID as a form of identification, or your military ID, or your tribal ID. You also can't use your birth certificate unless it is certified with an embossed governmental seal. (This analysis from the Democratic Party explains just how ridiculous their requirements really are.) A passport is one of the few forms of government ID that specifies where a person was born but ... Only half of American citizens have a passport.

Voter Suppression Challenge #3 for the win: If you are using your birth certificate, the name must match your current name. But a recent survey from the Pew Research Center found that 84% of women - as many as 69 million - have changed their last name so it no longer matches their birth certificate. Salon writes:

"This would be a back-door ban on voting for any woman who took her husband's last name and doesn't have a passport ... "



#1 | Posted by Gal_Tuesday at 2025-03-31 05:57 PM | Reply

The real problem is that THIS TIME they are really going to pass all these kinds of Neanderthal Bills (my apologies to 'Thals' everwhere!).

This isn't politics as usual, this is a slow motion Coup by the Broligarchs using low-info, low level edu, Media manipulated people who don't really want to be Serfs again, and have to decided to go along with an unjustifiable slow-coup... based on a 75 year in the making Project25 response to the policies of the 4 time elected FDR.

They knew they could never let that happen again.

And Elenore Roosevelt is a model that everyone should look back on as a Real American.

#2 | Posted by Corky at 2025-03-31 06:08 PM | Reply

who would be surprised to find out the eventual goal is to roll back voting rights so only white, landowning men could participate.

The Republican Party is full of regressives.

#3 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-03-31 06:20 PM | Reply

GOP Plan: Deny MILLIONS of Women the Right to Vote

Is this a surprise? To the 43% of women who voted for Trump?

Good news is that they won't need to worry their pretty little heads about that sort of thing (i.e., voting) in the future.

#4 | Posted by censored at 2025-03-31 07:18 PM | Reply

What is a woman?

#5 | Posted by BellRinger at 2025-04-01 12:32 AM | Reply

Anyone that covers their drink in a bar when you walk by.

#6 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2025-04-01 12:35 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

"The so-called Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act would make it really, really hard to register to vote, especially for women."

"What is a woman?"

He's not joking either.

#7 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-04-01 12:37 AM | Reply

A woman is a vagina which children come out of.

Ta da!

Just face it. That's all it boils down to for misogynists.

They need to know who they can rape.

#8 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-04-01 12:43 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

What is a woman?
#5 | Posted by BellRinger

In this case, it would be the ~80% of individuals in opposite-sex marriage who change their names, so their birth certificates no longer match their voter registration names.

#9 | Posted by censored at 2025-04-01 05:45 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Voter Suppression is a major problem in America

#10 | Posted by hamburglar at 2025-04-01 09:58 AM | Reply

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