The SAVE Act passed the House on Feb. 11, 2026 by a vote of 218-213 and is now in the Senate awaiting a vote. Voting is expected to take place next week, according to Thune. If and when it passes the Senate, it will go to the president for a final signature.
Will SAVE Act Prevent Married Women from Registering to Vote?
Posted on February 28, 2025
Q: Is it true that under the SAVE Act married women will not be able to register to vote if their married name doesn’t match their birth certificate?
A: The proposed SAVE Act instructs states to establish a process for people whose legal name doesn’t match their birth certificate to provide additional documents. But voting rights advocates say that married women and others who have changed their names may face difficulty when registering because of the ambiguity in the bill over what documents may be accepted.
Does that mean Alabama women are safe?
Won’t matter when he cancels elections cause we are in multiple wars.
Does SAVE require documentary proof of citizenship to vote, or just to register? As I understand it, documentary proof of citizenship is the specific requirement that’s hard for anyone who has had a change of name to meet short of a passport or an EDL in the 5 states that offer one.
Basically it changes the types of id that are accepted at voting booths.
When you vote you already have to have registered with appropriate ID to be counted federally. When you show up at the poll this act will change so that only federally issued ID types will be valid. Birth certificates are the most common but if your current name is different than what you were born with for any reason it won’t count.
Of these federal id types most of them are opt in varieties and as such are actually more expensive types of specific ID like passports and “REAL ID”. A regular old drivers licence as issued by your state won’t be good enough anymore even though your name and listed address were verified by the state and already match the name on the voter registration.
Since these id types are more expensive it can make voting the preserve of those who can afford the time and extra money making it a way to disenfranchise economically disadvantaged voters of all stripes .
Proof of citizenship is already required to register, bringing proof to the voting booth is the extra hurdle this act brings.
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The Handmaiden’s Tale has this subplot of a woman regretting of proverbially blowing the misogynists.
MAGA women usually are still using their first husbands last name so it’ll suck for them too
“My husband votes conservative for the both of us. A woman’s place is serving God and her husband, not having a right to an opinion.”
-Conservative women, probably
Some of them, for sure.
20-30% of women keep their maiden name after marriage.
Liberal women are roughly twice as likely as conservative women to keep their maiden name.
So yeah, conservative women screwing themselves and also handing a minor edge to liberal women.
Yes but who is going to be enforcing this? Where specifically are they going to be enforcing this?
Because it ain’t gonna be Bumfuck, Alabama who has gone red since the Civil War.
That’s true. Odds are if implemented they’ll harass people in Minneapolis before they do Ft. Smith, AR.
Baboon butt face pedophiles.
Not having any form of national ID really does lead to some goofy shit when you need to positivly identify people.
Our elections take place inside the state where we reside. We have state ID with a picture and the voting rolls match our address. It’s a pretty simple process that has worked for the last 40 years or so. I’ve always had to provide proof ID and residence to vote
Right? Imagine claiming to be the greatest country on earth and then not even have a national ID, something I bet even every third world country has lol. The US is such a circus lol.
Historically this was actively fought as an anti-fascist concern. Up until recently it was a big human right issue that you should not be required to show identification except in limited circumstances
And of course now with all the surveillance, tracking, and data collection, it’s more important than ever …… just as we no longer care
We’ve fought having a national ID for decades, with consideration to an administration similar to the current one taking over. We didn’t want the nazis running around demanding papers 10 years ago. It was trumps voting base that was most opposed to it 😭😅
I’m worried that this is a distraction to introduce a similar, but somehow less widespread bill. Like “oh boy, yeah this would disallow more women than intended to vote. Here’s the new bill that only disallows people with unmatching first names to avoid voter fraud (or whatever).” …And thus trans people can’t vote.
This is the intent of the bill as it is written. These bigots were so excited about denying rights to trans people that they didn’t even consider that it might disenfranchise cis women.
Though for these crusty old cunts, that’s just a bonus!
Wouldn’t that also hurt all kinds oft people who changed their name for other reasons? Like people who had a Tragedeigh name or artists who took on a different name.
Yep, and I think that anti-trans rights people would be more than happy to throw other people under the bus to assure that trans people lose their rights.
Yes, why would they care?
I’m aware they don’t care, I was just thinking that they might make more people angry than ‘only’ the targeted out-group. Also it would be funny if some rich Hollywood stars couldn’t vote because they changed their name for their career.
Rich Hollywood stars have passports???
They are also going after Mail-In voting already:
A divided Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that Americans can’t sue the U.S. Postal Service, even when employees deliberately refuse to deliver mail.
Calling it now.
Vote-by-mail ballots disregarded.
And ICE at every poll in every blue city around the country.
Don’t worry, they’ll only enforce this with Democratic voters
It doesn’t even matter. If only men vote then Republicans win. Women add more votes to Democrats. Removing them from the picture for voting simply helps Republicans.
So are they advocating for child marriage this time? Can a birth certificate be changed to reflect a married name? Somebody ain’t thinking straight
They want all conservative women to change back to their maiden name apparently lol.
But isn’t that something liberals do?
Its tied to education, which has a lot of correlation to political leaning. Professional women often keep their maiden name because they have published under it already.
Eww, education, that sounds awfully liberal
Looking forward to being a future target for never having married and/or taken a man’s name next!
None of us are safe until all of us are safe.
Voting as a man when you’re not? Jail time for you.
Basic rights with exceptions are like ads saying “Up to 20% off!*”
The fine print makes it a farce.
I guess all those blue haired feminists that refused to get married or change their last names still get to vote
Next they’ll exclude anyone whose current hair color doesn’t match their official one.
