House Republicans Are Set to Pass a Voter Suppression Bill That Would Disenfranchise Millions | “It’s a five-alarm fire for American voters and for election officials”
House Republicans Are Set to Pass a Voter Suppression Bill That Would Disenfranchise Millions | “It’s a five-alarm fire for American voters and for election officials”
“It's a five-alarm fire for American voters and for election officials”
According to the Pew Research Center, 69 million women who have taken their spouse’s name do not have a birth certificate matching their legal name and could find it much harder to register to vote under the bill.
So, among other things, this is a step towards the Republican goal of denying women the vote.
Women of course, but also poor people and immigrants are far less likely to have all of the requisite documentation. Plus it's an opportunity to snipe at transgender people.
GOP: Putting the "suffer" back into suffragette
Then the suffragettes should just go back to the terrorism they chose to abandon at the start of WW1.
No taxation without representation, you fascist cuntrags!
alot of women, especially conservatives relegate thier voting to thier husbands, they vote themselves typically.
We got married in St Lucia back in the 90s, and we've been trying for several years to get a copy of our marriage certificate so my wife can get her ID updated. We've sent them the money ($10) several times, filled out all the proper documents and followed all the rules (which have changed a few times), and then we hear nothing. After a few months, we try again. There is no option to do it online.
At this point, we are seriously considering getting her a legal name change through the American courts. It will be more expensive, but at least it will work.
I would advise any woman who is getting married to keep her own name, and not change it to her husband's. Dont even hyphenate it. Changing your name is a stupid old custom anyway, I cant believe feminists didn't go after it long ago.
Is going down to the courthouse and getting married again not an option? Not that you should have to do that, just curious.
Edit: I mean your local courthouse so you don't have to deal with this anymore.
We've considered that, but we are already legally married, I'm not even sure you can get legally married a second time, even to you current spouse.
I suppose we could roll the dice and get a divorce first, and see if either one of us bails before the re-marriage.
Just kidding, heh-heh...kind of...
And nothing will be done about it.
There’s no agency to ride to the rescue. It’s just the government and We The People, for better or worse.
I'm sure that Schumer and Jefferies will be looking for a nice bipartisanship solution to deny women the right to vote here.
Composing a sternly worded letter as we speak, which only 75% of the Dems will sign.
This is what I find frustrating with Americans ... their country is literally burning down and not enough of them can be bothered to do anything about it.
They believe they can wait until the last possible minute of failure and like some Hollywood movie, they'll save everything at the last possible moment when things are at their darkest and save everything.
It isn't a Hollywood movie .... if no one does anything now or soon ... everything will be lost and no one will save it at the last moment
Your observation is valid. It seems people don't like it but that is the reality. We are doing nothing to stop any of this. Peaceful protests are going to be ignored. People are just too comfortable in their lives to make any sort of sacrifice. Most people are up to their ears in debt. Most do not own that house, the car or the boat and are in debt beyond that. It's become the norm to live way beyond your actual means. Living pay check to pay check means losing everything you have. No one wants to do that. By the time we reach that point, I'm pretty sure there will definitely be nothing we can do.
It's been so obvious for many years that Republicans are not playing by the rules. The only counter is to also not play by the rules. Being polite and orderly when the country has already been stolen by Republicans in Congress, the White House and validated by the ones in the Supreme Court.. serves no one but those same Republicans.
I'm for skipping over the useless waste of time. I mourn the loss of the US. It wasn't perfect, far from it, but we had periods of progress towards a better future. Now, the game is rigged and is becoming even more so in favor of the Republican fascists. They control all the legal avenues and are corrupting them. How is it ever going to be possible to politely wrest power from them when the entire democratic process is rigged? The solution as I see it is for the blue states to leave the union. The red states are weaker in every way and where most of this poison comes from. I think joining Canada actually does make sense even if it was proposed partly in jest.
If we do this slowly, we become ever weaker as the fascist state gets stronger. Eliminate our rights, eliminating our voices and literally eliminating people. People are just not facing the reality of this situation. There is no legal recourse when the law backs anything the Republicans do and declares the Republican in the White House to be above the law.
Our time to prevent any of this happening has passed. People collectively shrugged and let the fascist state win. I just don't see how we are going to ever get back to how things were since people are not taking this seriously. If they were, we would already have beheaded the king and his enablers.
Resist. Secede.
what happened after the election is met with apathy and indifference, even from persecuted groups. while i was on reddit before banned, some people reported they met others that said "how does this affect me now, or i dint know he was running, or i dint bother voting"
The bill would create criminal penalties for election officials who register any noncitizens, even if they did so by mistake
Creating a job that no sane person would ever want to take. The people who do take the job will be overworked, since their office will always be understaffed, and they will tend to err on the side of caution and deny registration as the default.
How about also creating criminal penalties for election officials who refuse to register any citizen, even if they did so by mistake? /s
4 DINOs also voted for the bills, apparently there are in red districts.
While I consider it evil to exclude legal voters from voting, I cannot wrap my head around the point that about 9% of American citizens cannot prove their citizenship. At least the tax office should know about them, shouldn't they? Or are they "invisible" to the system to avoid getting taxed?
And that they cannot match a person to a birth certificate just because that person got married is such a colossal bureaucratic failure that it is hard to believe. Don't they record marriages anywhere?
Transgender people have that exact problem right now, even with passports. They effectively cannot prove they are a citizen even with a birth certificate because of Trump's executive orders.
I only have an enhanced NY state driver's license. I don't have Real ID or even a passport. While I'm male and identify as male, I don't have my birth certificate. If they require something like Real ID, passport, or birth certificate the likelihood of me voting pretty much becomes nil. I don't drive, rely on public transportation, and would have to go to a county office and hope I can give them the right information to get a copy of my birth certificate.
Why don't you have a birth certificate? That is something I don't understand. There must be some sort of records?
In my country, every citizen has a mandatory federal identity card from the age of 16, and many have a passport, too, and our driving licences are at about the same level of security as the ID card. Not being able to establish an identity is a completely foreign concept to me.
most of them likely dont have thier birth certificate, updated passports, or thier marriage certificate on hand. its actually quite a hassle to get a passport, even more for naturalized citenzenship, its the point that gop knows, its inconvience as hell if you have FT job. you also need valid proof of to even get your citizenship or passport.
colossal bureaucratic failure
Failure, feature, who’s to say?
Are we at the point yet where we are openly called a dictatorship and humanitarian forces start stepping in...?
We need an outside group to handle our elections because a third of our country is so fucking corrupt it's VILE
When are the Dems going to actually care?
I'm not trying to be negative but what are the Democrats supposed to do in this situation?
They have none of the levers of power because they were voted out of them.
again I'm not saying you're wrong, I'm a Canadian so there may be a gap in my knowledge about things within their power
4 of them voted for the bill
Well, they can show up armed, and ready to take out the fascists.
I mean, aim going out on a limb here, but I'd think reps would have contacts with their governors already, and can activate the state's national guard to defend against the domestic enemies...
Don't worry, next time around we won't be voting with ballots. We'll be voting with something a lot more effective at removing Nazis from power.
or have a MINDER like with putins election, to make sure you vote the right candidate.
Thankfully they're not blocking online or mail-in voting.
Not yet. Just wait and see.
North Carolina says hold my beer.
I mean federally. I'd just register in another State if the State was an issue.
Americans: wake me up when it's a 7 alarm fire"
