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**Republicans Will Detonate Their Secret Weapon at the Midnight Hour to Stop Women from Voting **


Imagine arriving at your polling place in November only to be turned away because you changed your name when you got married. You’ve voted for 20 years with valid identification. Nothing matters. The SAVE Act passed the House in April, and 69 million American women are about to discover their names don’t match their birth certificates while the deadline to fix the problem has already closed...

Twenty years of voting with valid ID, Social Security records, tax returns, and a mortgage in your name mean nothing when the system decides your marriage certificate makes you unverifiable.

This scenario becomes reality for millions of American women if Republicans deploy the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act in the final weeks before the 2026 midterms.

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in reply to Muse

This was originally meant to target trans people, right? They made exceptions for cis children concerning gender affirming care and surgeries, so why haven't they built in an exception here?
in reply to Amina Jojo

@Amina Jojo voter repression.
more ways to mess with voters and voting.
in reply to Muse

This could happen. We must be prepared for any eventuality. The Republicans all know that the next election will be disastrous for them - but we do not know what they may or may not have planned to deal with that.
in reply to Muse

the slew of lawsuits would keep it tied up in court for years


yes, BUT, will they require someone to actually be harmed first, as they typically do, to acquire the magical "standing" that is required to sue?

anyhow I'm hoping the elections officers will hold the line on this like they have been on turning over voter data—at a minimum, allowing the disenfranchised to vote on provisional ballots (which might even force the courts to deal with the issue sooner?)

in reply to Muse

There must exist some precedent regarding voter privacy.
in reply to Muse

Right. Today the FBI descended on the Fulton, Georgia voting data (for 2020), in an apparent effort to "re-prove" the "fake" election results then (which led to Jan 6 plus impeachment). As the GA Senator just noted, this is pre-shadowing Trump's election strategy (reprise) to do whatever he can to interfere with the next election and also (of course) undo the result of the last one, as he re-writes all of #truth & #history.
in reply to Muse

Ah, dusting off the old script...