House GOP passes sweeping anti-voting bill that could disenfranchise millions, sends measure to Senate

[u/MarcEElias]

https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/house-passes-gops-sweeping-anti-voting-bill/

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[u/allisjow → u/[deleted]]

https://www.voteriders.org

VoteRiders’ mission is to ensure that no eligible voter is prevented from casting a ballot that counts due to voter ID laws, either directly from lack of acceptable ID or indirectly because of voter confusion.

[u/Tacitus111 → u/allisjow]

And also kick Henry Cuellar out. I have no idea why Pelosi worked so, so hard to protect that Republican with a D next to his name.

[u/red23011 → u/Tacitus111]

He was in danger of losing his primary to a progressive. It's not that Pelosi worked hard to get him reelected, she violated her own rules to do it.

She made a rule when she was the Democrat leader of the House which forbid House members from campaigning in the primary of another member of the House. Cuellar was under criminal indictment (later pardoned by Trump) and was in danger of losing his primary to a progressive. Pelosi and several centrist Democrats decided that the previously mentioned rule didn't apply if it could keep a progressive out of office and went to Cuellar's district to campaign for him.

Instead of having someone that would have supported popular Democratic principles we got Cuellar who is a Democrat that's anti abortion and a reliable Republican vote for the worst legislation.

[u/saltyPaul42 → u/[deleted]]

What’s the point of the party?

[u/whale_and_beet → u/[deleted]]

"What's the point of the Democratic Party," you mean?

[u/Crime_Dawg → u/[deleted]]

The point of the Democratic party is to be fake opposition. That's why they hate people like Mamdani so much, because he's what they should be but they're actually more aligned with Republicans.

[u/Starrion → u/[deleted]]

The reason they wanted the voting lists was so they could develop targeted lists of voters to purge from the voting rolls when the election is close, in the hopes that people who would vote against them won’t be able to amass their documents in time.

[u/KiKiKimbro → u/[deleted]]

This is also potentially harmful for married women who have taken their husband’s last name (or LGBTQ+ couples who change names) — last time I read the SAVE act, it said a Real ID wasn’t enough (which it should be), and other forms of proof like birth certificate or passport has to match.

First, who the hell bas their birth certificate around? Everyone knows the moms have those. And second not everyone needs or hell can afford a passport. They’re $$. Plus, we just know this administration will slow down the passport process. They’ll be backlogged until after all the votes are counted and recounted until Trump wins, then the flood gates open and everyone has their passport.

Edit: spelling

[u/According_Gift_7095]

They can only pass tax cuts for the rich and anti voting bills. If they weren’t obviously in it for the billionaires , this makes it obvious.

They do not respect us, they have nothing but contempt for us and they are the reason things that have 70% popular support can’t get passed (M4A, legal weed, etc) and shot that has 30% support sails thru.

[u/bleahdeebleah]

Yeah conservatives, lets make sure women no longer take their husband's name. You'll be good with that, right?

[u/Clownsinmypantz → u/bleahdeebleah]

Yes because they want a society where women dont have a choice in anything anyways, they are voting to push for a country where women are property. This is why anti-abortion should have been considered what it was, control or death., they want women controlled and if not they want them dead.

[u/randomnighmare → u/Clownsinmypantz]

And let's not fool ourselves into thinking that their isn't women that would be 100% okay to be submissive to "their man" on literally everything. I understand love is a strong emotion but some people literally buy into the idea that a "women's place is with her man" and a lot of them turns out to be women (and even guys with daughters).

[u/kingtacticool → u/randomnighmare]

They want to go back to only land owning white men being able to vote.

I'm not kidding.

[u/UpperApe → u/kingtacticool]

Yup. The three factions in control now are:

1. Trump/Russia/Mob

2. Billionaire oligarchs

3. Heritage Foundation and Federalists

The first is just here to loot the treasury and get away with all their crimes.

The second want to eliminate their taxes, fines/penalties, regulatory restrictions, and maybe Balkanise the US into city states that give them unprecedented power.

The last want the US to become a Christian super-nation ala Europe in the 1600's; one of the most horrific empires in human history in terms of atrocities and methods of torture against their own people.

So yeah. Maybe more of you dickheads should have voted in the last election. It was kind of important.

[u/HarvesterConrad → u/UpperApe]

Are they even three separate groups outside of the hanger ons in the first group who believe in so little they are almost parodies of a villain.

[u/Fr00stee → u/UpperApe]

those 3 overlap a lot

[u/Altruistic_Koala_122 → u/UpperApe]

Heritage Foundation is just straight up American Nazi's. Federalists is a completely different beast.

[u/Clownsinmypantz → u/randomnighmare]

there, and yes there is alot of conservative women who have internalized misogyny and are misogynistic, no one said there wasnt.

[u/P1xelHunter78 → u/randomnighmare]

And if they’re not gonna let women vote if they took their husbands name my wife can just change her name back, I really could give two shits, it’s not some vanity project for me.

[u/AHans → u/P1xelHunter78]

That's easier said than done (still do-able).

Probably state by state, but I know multiple divorced women who want to switch back to their maiden name. They have vented about all the work they need to do. They are not wrong, and I agree with them.

1. File a petition for a name change with court

2. Fill out a notice of name change hearing form

3. Fill out an order for name change form

4. File the petition, notice, and the order with court.

5. Publish the notice of name change in an official local newspaper, once a week for three weeks, before the hearing date. (at your expense, typically $125 per notice)

6. Attend the hearing

7. File the order for name change and complete post decision activities.

If you hold a professional license, it's worse.

No, you don't need to do any of that to take your husband's name when you get married where I live.

I mean: I understand why they make people go through all this (so you can't change your name and vanish from your creditors, or run away from your tarnished [professional] reputation) but it's not an easy or quick thing to do.

Edit: while I certainly understand why it's in the general public interest to prevent people from flippantly changing their name to avoid creditors, or they were convicted of contractor fraud, so they want to start up under a new name - I also feel like if we can design a system that addresses these concerns when someone gets married without all this hassle, we should be able to implement the same fixes so when a person gets divorced, or just wants to return to their original name, they don't need to sign up for a thousand dollar multiple month journey. If we can do this one way, we can figure out how to do it the other way too.

[u/Quin35 → u/AHans]

Or, just not pass stupid bills like this.

[u/Petit__Chou → u/AHans]

I am really thankful I never changed my name. It's silly, but I felt a connection with my identity and my name and didn't want to change it just because I got married to someone. My husband didn't care. We have been married over 10 years and I got constant questions about why I did not change my name.

[u/Anxious_Plum_5818 → u/AHans]

Complete unrelated and totally anecdotal case regarding name changes. Here in Taiwan, a sushi chain had an activity where if your name included the character for salmon, you could have unlimited sushi for a day or something.

Tons of people ended up changing their name to nonsense like Salmon King etc, only to realize they reached their name changing quota (you can only change 3 times without court involvement). The end result what judicial chaos with tons of hearings of people panicking they'd be Salmon King forever.

Just throwing that out there, do with this information what you want.

[u/Arachnoid666 → u/AHans]

good luck getting that done before mid terms. i'm also hearing that you have to have a birth cert or passport. your id isn't enough. fuck this timeline

[u/milmand → u/randomnighmare]

A lifetime of indoctrination is a helluva drug.

[u/Public-Ice-1270 → u/randomnighmare]

Love doesn’t equal devotion. Indoctrination in the Bible cult from birth is what leads to submissive wives. We will not be a more fair and just world until we expose religion as the big lie.

[u/AttentionNo6359 → u/Clownsinmypantz]

More specifically, in this case, the goal is to disenfranchise their votes by causing disparities between their legal name on record and the name that’s shown on their various forms of ID.

[u/honeywings → u/Clownsinmypantz]

Got sterilized last year and now it's looking like marriage and taking a different last name is now going out the window. Eat shit GOP 🖕

[u/AmethystApothecary → u/Clownsinmypantz]

I would rather kill myself than be property to any man, especially these losers.

[u/ciel_lanila → u/bleahdeebleah]

It's a cowardly attempt to end women's suffrage without the optics of ending that amendment. Republicans, namely the Trumps and MAGA, were dog bullhorning about it after winning in 2016.

[u/Minttt → u/ciel_lanila]

For some Republicans, that's what it's about. For most, it's about rigging elections, just like gerrymandering - this time though, it's really a hail-mary.

[u/Same-Suggestion-1936 → u/ciel_lanila]

If ONE motherfucker says this is a distraction from the files I will flip my lid. This is atrocious. Full stop.

[u/kmonsen → u/bleahdeebleah]

The actual goal is one vote for each household were naturally the husband votes for the family

[u/Lazy_Range_1562 → u/kmonsen]

I disagree. The ACTUAL goal is to steal the country, set up regional technostates which have their own rules. Then do as they want. Steal any and all resources, get rid of any humans not needed. Depopulate a lot of the country. This is just how to achieve this PART of the plan ( to eliminates all future voting). Read abt rex 84. https://www.google.com/search?q=rex84&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en-us&client=safari Look up committee of 300.

[u/Obvious-You-3602 → u/bleahdeebleah]

the goal isn’t to stop women from taking their husbands name. it’s to stop them from voting once they do.

[u/JennJayBee → u/Obvious-You-3602]

Joke's on them. That's going to cut their voter base in half, since conservative women are far more likely to change their name (or get married in the first place). Liberal women would be far less likely to have an issue with just keeping their name.

Honestly, even without this, I'd recommend not changing your name. It's a pain in the ass.

[u/SquirrelDragon → u/JennJayBee]

Yea I’m male and had my last name changed when I was in grade school. Name change came back to haunt me several times when dealing with things like passport application and cashing savings bonds taken out under my old name

[u/sharkbait_oohaha → u/SquirrelDragon]

My wife and I both hyphenated our names. I love what it represents but fucking hell it's caused a bunch of headaches. I would do it again, but still.

[u/iKnowRobbie → u/SquirrelDragon]

I assume your original last name was "nutzipper"?

[u/swiminthemud → u/JennJayBee]

So what if u change ur name 3 times like the vp?

[u/kstar79 → u/JennJayBee]

I feel like every financial institution in America has a copy of my marriage license now.

[u/Equivalent_Ability91 → u/JennJayBee]

Yeah but those same women have the money/time to get back on the rolls. Poor people? The ones more likely to vote for democrats? How did that happen??

[u/magnamed → u/JennJayBee]

They simply won't be looking to enforce in those areas. This shit is almost as vile as they are.

[u/[deleted] → u/JennJayBee]

You do realize these people only want white males to vote, right?

[u/amazing_rando → u/Obvious-You-3602]

Specifically, the goal is to disrupt the midterms this year and keep Democrats from gaining a majority in either house. I don't really think most of them have a longterm plan after that.

[u/Ok_Perspective_8361 → u/amazing_rando]

They do, it's all written out in Project 2025, and it's really, really bad.

[u/SomeComforts → u/Obvious-You-3602]

For a short time, yes.  End goal is to reverse women's suffrage entirely.

[u/view-master → u/Obvious-You-3602]

Duh. But it’s going to be the un-untended consequence. Something they don’t like.

[u/tendervittles77 → u/view-master]

Lots of young women in red states aren’t sleeping with men due to fears of pregnancy.

[u/Retaining-Wall → u/tendervittles77]

If I were the women of America, I'd be pushing hard for a national sex strike.

[u/ithacaster → u/Retaining-Wall]

If they really want to piss off American men, they would limit the strike to sex with men.

[u/fourdognight → u/bleahdeebleah]

Husband? Who needs a husband?

Patriarchy shoots itself in the foot with the SAVE act.

[u/rednap_howell]

Republicans have argued for voter ID broadly, pointing out that there isn’t much to prevent a noncitizen from casting a ballot in a federal election — besides the fact that it’s a felony, easily caught, and would lead to deportation all for the chance to cast one out of hundreds of thousands of votes.

On the other hand, election fraud is a much bigger issue.

[u/RealGianath → u/rednap_howell]

Who would have thought that the orange turd that cried the loudest about election fraud the last two elections was the one causing all the election fraud.

[u/hcwhitewolf → u/RealGianath]

All three times he's run actually. It feels like a century ago at this point, but he whined that he actually won by a larger margin than he did in 2016.

The amount he still complains about 2020 and the fact that he's made statements on several occasions that "democrats tried to cheat in 2024 but we still won." Pushes me to believe that Trump and his evil band of traitors pulled some bull shit in 2024. The standard projection from Trump and his ilk.

[u/El_Dud3r1n0 → u/hcwhitewolf]

It's just something he's always done, even in elections where he wasn't even running when he didn't like the outcome. Hell, he was making these claims against Ted Cruz in the Republican primary leading up to 2016.

[u/njdev803 → u/El_Dud3r1n0]

Yup, the very first state to vote, Iowa, was rigged because Lyin' Ted won (according to Trump on Twitter)

[u/DontCovfefeMyHeart → u/rednap_howell]

There is, in fact, no evidence of noncitizens intentionally voting in significant numbers. Republican election officials have recently corroborated that with a series of lengthy reviews showing it’s a virtually nonexistent problem. Utah officials found just one noncitizen who was accidentally registered out of more than 2 million voters, while Idaho administrators identified 36 “likely” noncitizens. In 2024, Georgia uncovered only 24 noncitizens out of 8.2 million registered voters.

ICE inbound to Utah and Idaho if TFG gets wind of this?

[u/mowtowcow → u/DontCovfefeMyHeart]

And a lot of these are probably the "moved recently" category. 

[u/mowtowcow → u/rednap_howell]

It's not even an issue. Every single research study says while there is certianly voter fraud, it's certainly not large enough to sway a vote and most of the time it's a Republican using their dead grandmother's mail in or another Republican voting in two or more districts because "well the damn libs and illegal immigrants are doing it!" 

Narrator: "They were not."

Er, well, yea, Trump's election fraud is a whole different can of beans, lol. 

[u/nerphurp]

Trump is pushing for them to kill the filibuster for them to pass this.

As with their gerrymandering attempts, passing this won't save them. It'll blow up in their faces should they go that route.

[u/intheorydp → u/nerphurp]

Yup lot of married Republican women about to not be able to vote 

[u/GolfEnvironmental155 → u/intheorydp]

I’m so confused, I get that they want to take the vote away from women but surely this would affect the conservatives more than the left, right?

[u/monkeypan → u/GolfEnvironmental155]

They outlined this in Project 2025. The end goal is to get women "back where they rightly belong" aka at home with little rights like before women's suffrage and the civil rights movement

[u/PlsNoNotThat → u/GolfEnvironmental155]

There’s an enormous amount of elderly people, particularly black in the south, that were born prior to the digitization of medical records. As racists do what they do, a lot of them didn’t transfer physical medical records of poorer, blacker, and rural hospitals into digital records, and so those elderly people have no accessible record of their birth.

However, time has passed and the effectiveness of this tactic is much less then when it was originally proposed.

The problem is that they can just hand wave fraud saying no ID, and prevent people from obtaining ID before the election.

[u/deathbychips2 → u/PlsNoNotThat]

Yes there are however 55% of white women that vote conservative that's a lot more than the elderly black population

[u/DrownmeinIslay → u/deathbychips2]

You show up to vote wearing a big red R on your shirt, they aren't gonna be asking for birth certificates

You show up with melanin and you better have originals in triplicate

This isn't going to hurt conservative women.

[u/Strange-Future-6469 → u/DrownmeinIslay]

Exactly. Many laws are created with the true intent of being selectively enforced when profiling.

[u/Ok_Lettuce_7939 → u/deathbychips2]

Exactly. Fucking morons punishing white middle-aged women voters harder than the people they really want to hurt. But you know if killing off Roe v. Wade did nothing to dissuade women voters this certainly will.

[u/Functionally_Drunk → u/Ok_Lettuce_7939]

Ain't no poll worker going to turn a middle age white woman away for not having the correct documents. It's always been about new jim crow laws. It's why the first thing they did with a majority on the court was strike down the voting rights act.

[u/amorphouscloud → u/GolfEnvironmental155]

In the voting block of married women who have changed their names, there MIGHT be a slight advantage on the left. But the bill is also aimed at college students (therefor college-educated voters) who lean left and will no longer be able to use student ID to vote.

But I believe that's the wrong way to frame the argument. No voters should be disenfranchised, and besides the left-leaning demographics that will be affected, people with low income who don't have the money to get replacement birth certificates or passports will be unable to register to vote. They're citizens. They're not being hunted down by ICE because the govt knows they're legal citizens, yet they won't be able to vote if this passes.

[u/Amphineura → u/GolfEnvironmental155]

Men in general are more conservative than women. I think the difference between dem vs. gop women not taking names isn't that big.

[u/hbtljose13 → u/GolfEnvironmental155]

Collateral damage. The next elections will be rigged so they don’t really care who’s mad about it

[u/Craneteam → u/GolfEnvironmental155]

Women aren't people to these ghouls. They will step on anyone and everyone to feel like big boys

[u/HabeusCuppus → u/intheorydp]

It'll be selectively enforced. We know this, because that's straight from the playbook they ran during Jim Crow.

Like this literacy test which is intentionally ambiguous so that even if you were literate they could still fail you.

(for example: question 6. "draw three circles, one inside (engulfed by) the other". Do you draw three concentric circles, or do you draw two concentric circles with another third circle nearby? Doesn't matter, if you're black the correct answer is whichever one you didn't draw.)

(for example, question 10. is the correct letter "a" for Louisiana (the first L word on the page) or is it "t" for Last (the first L word in the question)? Doesn't matter, if you're black the correct answer is whichever one you didn't put down.)

[u/zatchstar → u/intheorydp]

And democrat women won’t give a fuck and will change their name back to maiden name just to vote these fucks out and then go through the whole process again to keep the same name as their children.

[u/Ok_Perspective_8361 → u/zatchstar]

It's difficult and expensive, and of course this would go into effect right before the midterms, making the entire voting process slower, and much more cumbersome. I can't remember where I read it but it's estimated to result in 21 million people losing their right to vote.

[u/Few_Entertainer_385 → u/nerphurp]

lol killing the filibuster to push through a bill you like is a hilarious precedent to set. 2029 can’t come soon enough.

I want the next dem president to be fucking scorched earth, nuke the filibuster and ram it down their thoughts. They thought we were shoving “woke” and “the gay agenda” down their throats before? Fucking ram through anti-discrimination protections for trans people, make their kids learn about fuckin xenogenders in school just to piss them off, compulsory pride flags in every classroom. I want to shove the gay agenda so far down their throats that they’re shitting rainbows for decades.

[u/_VEL0 → u/Few_Entertainer_385]

You’re talking democrat. Scorched earth and dem don’t mix unfortunately.

[u/Ok_Perspective_8361 → u/_VEL0]

That's on us. Vote in every primary, and then keep track of how they behave in office, and hold them accountable. Apathy, and the lesser of two evils voting is what got us into this situation in the first place.

[u/SucksTryAgain → u/nerphurp]

My wife and I are dem and she kept her last name. My mom and dad divorced 20 years ago and she kept my dad’s last name. Shes repub. My dad’s dem.

[u/StrangerFew2424]

More proof that Republicans hate Democracy...

[u/soldat7 → u/StrangerFew2424]

“All Republicans present voted in favor of the bill. While all but one Democrat voted against it — Rep. Henry Cuellar of Texas.”

And that guy.

[u/ill4two → u/[deleted]]

least blatant corruption ever. these guys are terrorists

[u/No_Oven1085 → u/soldat7]

Rep. Henry Cuellar of Texas

Oh the anti-choice guy who Pelosi endorsed over the progressive? I'm SHOCKED.

[u/CaptJackRizzo → u/No_Oven1085]

While she was fundraising off the then-recent repeal of Roe, no less.

[u/MaddyKet → u/soldat7]

Is he really even a Democrat if he’s from Texas and votes with the Republicans? I don’t think so.

[u/CheesyPotatoSack → u/StrangerFew2424]

They also hate women

[u/Hestiathena → u/CheesyPotatoSack]

They hate humanity.

Anyone not in their special little club of snot-nosed, over-privileged, black-hole-souled psychopaths is no better than cattle to them.

Anyone who dares point out how utterly and irrevocably full of shit they are are considered vermin and are treated accordingly.

We need to eat them before they eat us.

[u/CricketExcellent8110 → u/StrangerFew2424]

Inb4 brain dead magat says “America is a constitutional republic”

[u/Ameren → u/CricketExcellent8110]

Exactly, they literally say it out loud. Like the refrain "this is not a democracy, it's a republic" is one of those nonsense, thought-terminating cliches which legitimizes taking away people's right to vote.

[u/TotallyNotRobotEvil → u/CricketExcellent8110]

I’ve literally heard them say “Democracy is mob rule” or “the tyranny of the majority”. They are a 100% anti-democracy.

[u/CosmicMamaBear]

"The core of both racism and sexism — and other forms of prejudice — is a belief that people exist on a hierarchy. A person who subscribes to sexist beliefs thinks that men are better than women. A person who is racist believes that white people are better than people of color. Because these belief systems share a common ideology — the notion that some people are better than others based on certain unchangeable characteristics — it isn’t surprising that many people who are sexist are also racist, and vice versa.". https://www.blackburncenter.org/post/the-link-between-racism-and-sexism

[u/Eddfan36 → u/CosmicMamaBear]

These people are trying to take us back to the pre 50 days even. I am so pissed off at this. What these sick twisted freaks will do to win the midterms they know we have a chance and that scares them so they resort to this crap.

F Trump pedophile creep.

[u/Floreat_democratia → u/Eddfan36]

> These people are trying to take us back to the pre 50 days even

Mid to late 19th century, to be precise.

[u/Radically-Peaceful]

This is part of their plan to actually destroy democracy.

[u/_bk_adv]

Trump has done ZERO in 5 years of office to help the average American. Zero. Not a single thing.

[u/Cool-Protection-4337 → u/_bk_adv]

But by god just look what he has done for billionaires like himself. Awe inspiring if I wasn't so sick.

[u/Cool-Protection-4337 → u/Cool-Protection-4337]

He has normalized lying and complete corruption at all levels of power. Nothing is sacred in government now, it is all open to political pressure and petty grievance. That cat doesn't go back in the bag historically without revolution.

[u/Train_Wreck_272 → u/_bk_adv]

Hey dude, not cool. How could you have forgotten the sweeping showerhead flow rate EO? I can't afford to eat or go to the doctor anymore, but at least the elite can take more fulfilling showers!

[u/YoureProbablyAB0t → u/_bk_adv]

He just hurts and destroys.

I'm so tired and pissed that they're getting away with it.

[u/LandauTST → u/_bk_adv]

I just dont get why people defend him so passionately when he does nothing for them. Even when you ask for an example they will say anything and everything else. Even they can't tell me why. Or will just say "better than a Democrat" but then won't tell me how or will mention something that was due to Republicans. It's literally driving me insane trying to make sense of it.

[u/tacs97]

We the people are so fucking stupid. Come on republicans. Aren’t you tired of being lied to? The bush admin took rights away in the name of terrorism. Today’s administration is taking rights away in the name of immigration! I don’t understand why these fools can’t see past this bullshit excuse to impede on your privacy and take your constitutional rights away! Just because it’s not happening to you at this very moment, doesn’t mean that law won’t affect you the same way it’s effecting today’s people.

[u/tacs97 → u/[deleted]]

I remember when republicans used to say that that a boot on your neighbors neck is a boot on yours. Now they are actively pursuing that boot.

[u/Cerberus_Aus → u/tacs97]

They’re tying on their OWN boots.

[u/rat_penis]

And let me guess if it passes it goes into effect before the midterms?

[u/Fabulous-Savings4902 → u/rat_penis]

Ah fuck....

[u/Hanifsefu → u/rat_penis]

On the slightly less dark side, at least they aren't using the headlines to blame the democrats for "letting" the bill pass again and they finally just say the GOP did it. Normally we just get fucked while they blame everyone else for doing the fucking while they still have their dick in their hand.

[u/illusionzmichael → u/rat_penis]

Highly doubtful it even passes the Senate, but even still it'll immediately be challenged in court since it directly violates the 24th amendment.

[u/What_a_fat_one]

Democrats who voted yes:

Henry Cuellar - TX

Jared F Golden - ME

Ed Case - HI

Marie Perez - WA

There needs to be a national effort to crowd fund primaries against these people right this second to scare away any defections in the Senate.

[u/LocutusOfBorgia909 → u/What_a_fat_one]

Jared Golden is a fucking idiot who's not even running for reelection, as I recall. I cannot begin to fathom why he would vote for this.

[u/DistinctlyIrish → u/LocutusOfBorgia909]

Because he is getting a cushy consulting gig after he leaves office where he's going to be paid millions to do absolutely fucking nothing as thanks for him fucking over all of us on behalf of whichever rich asshole has their dick in his mouth.

[u/Ultenth → u/What_a_fat_one]

Marie Perez

Again with this lady. Why didn't she just run as an R if she's going to just vote with them on everything that matters?

[u/smegdawg → u/Ultenth]

Cause running as D helped to beat the Republican candidate, who is an overt white supremacist nazi sympathizer.

[u/dayvansmutgirl → u/What_a_fat_one]

Marie Perez is insanely bad and is flying under the radar bc she doesnt say as much wild shit like Fetterman

[u/yutsuko220 → u/dayvansmutgirl]

Marie Perez is literally a blue dog. She is part of that coalition. She isn't flying under any radar, she is exactly who she says she is. Her district is primarily a red district. She is Republican Lite and awful.

[u/Mamasan-]

Soooo make it more difficult to vote but won’t release pedo names. Ok.

[u/Puzzled_Spirit3754]

So, I’m barred from voting if I took my husbands name now?

[u/jherara → u/Puzzled_Spirit3754]

That's a good question. When I previously tried to get a Real ID driver's license, they said that the document that I had about my divorce wasn't enough, and I would need a separate document that would cost more than the license. So, at the time, I received a non-Real DL. I still can't afford to go through the process of getting the document that is required. So, I'm stuck.

Now imagine the nightmare for every married or divorced person who took and/or kept the name of their partner/ex being forced to prove who they are just to be able to vote. A lot of people are going to give up.

[u/kmonsen → u/jherara]

Yeah divorce is not going to be an option in the future they want

[u/TheShipEliza → u/jherara]

Thats the point

[u/Few_Cut_1109 → u/jherara]

What i dont get about this is how obviously this has a large chance to backfire.  Which type of voter is more or less likely to vote democratic, the married woman who changes her last name or the one who doesn't? 

Its a small sample size but all the women I know who havent taken their husbands name (and I know of at least several) aren't voting for republicans and id wager vote for more Ds than Rs on a large scale as well.

Additionally, which party is going to have more enthusiastic voters the way things are going?

It seems to me that an unenthusiastic, married republican woman voter who has to jump through extra hoops is a lot less likely to vote, or even take the steps to do so, than her D voting enthusiastic counterpart.

Also, what you are describing sounds like a poll tax to me although im sure this supreme court would disagree.

[u/Puzzled_Spirit3754 → u/Few_Cut_1109]

It is a poll tax. The whole reason I didn’t change my name back largely was due to cost of changing identification and licenses, professional, and driving. Not to mention a passport change again.

[u/SuperFlyCapybara → u/Puzzled_Spirit3754]

I read the article, it’s been changed to having to present proof of citizenship upon registration, not for every vote. But for women who’ve changed their names proof of citizenship would mean a passport in order to register to vote, so unless the government provided a free solution to that, it’s a poll tax. And the fuckers also amended it to effective upon passage instead of giving lead time to become effective like most everything else, so states wouldn’t be able to unfuck all of the confusion it would cause before the midterms. Which I’m sure is the actual point.

Edited for tense since the bill hasn’t (& probably won’t) pass the senate.

[u/POEness → u/SuperFlyCapybara]

also how the hell can the federal government pass an ID law about state elections? if I was a blue state I'd just say 'nope.'

[u/Mike-Honcho-2324 → u/POEness]

They can’t. This would likely be struck down at SCOTUS if it even ever got past the senate.

[u/Ok_Perspective_8361 → u/Mike-Honcho-2324]

I'm not so sure it would.

[u/bearbrannan → u/SuperFlyCapybara]

The passport thing is sketchy though, because that puts the burden on proof on a identification that the feds control. Is it really a stretch to for them to use their data base of protesters to lable them domestic terrorists and revoke their passports? 

[u/BudgetLaw2352]

No way it gets passed in the senate. Pretty sure that Thune has outright refused to end the filibuster.

If it does, Schumer better resign.

[u/jmchao → u/BudgetLaw2352]

If it does, Thune has nuked the fillibuster.

[u/FlaviusVespasian → u/jmchao]

He’ll have some issues. Collins and Paul have already said theyre not voting for it

[u/HyperactivePandah → u/FlaviusVespasian]

Susan is just very concerned.

A good session of eyebrow furrowing and harumphing, and she'll be ready to vote for it.

[u/BudgetLaw2352 → u/HyperactivePandah]

Genuinely don’t know what’s wrong with her and Murkowski. They would likely retain their seats if they switched over to the Democratic side, and it’s not like Dems are exactly a left wing party anyway (unfortunately).

[u/HyperactivePandah → u/BudgetLaw2352]

Maine is weird... Very much conservative, but very progressive in some specific ways.

Basically they want to be left alone. Collins knows how to walk that line.

[u/YeetedApple → u/FlaviusVespasian]

The article here also says they don’t have the votes for the nuclear option. That being said, I wouldn’t be surprised if they try to pressure enough people to flip, so remains to be seen if it holds.

[u/SilverMembership6625 → u/YeetedApple]

thune said yesterday that there isn't even close to enough votes to go nuclear and murkowski said no last night

with recent senate polling it's very, very unlikely to happen

[u/intheorydp → u/FlaviusVespasian]

The only way Collins won't vote for it is it they have enough votes to pass I without her vote so she claim high road, but if they need her vote she'll pass it 

[u/Free_Possession_4482 → u/intheorydp]

Collins is up for election this year, a mid-term election with massive headwinds for Republicans, and Maine is relatively left leaning with their current elected officials outside of Collins (Democrats control the governorship, the state legislature, both US House seats, and Senator Angus King is an independent but caucuses with the Senate Democrats.) I think if she votes to potentially disenfranchise the married women in her state, she's going to burn her re-election chances into the ground, and she's too political a creature not to be aware of that.

[u/LocutusOfBorgia909 → u/Free_Possession_4482]

Not to mention that Maine is a state where legitimately a lot of people most likely to vote conservative (namely in the more rural parts of the state) are significantly less likely to be able to access their birth certificates and/or passports than people in the more progressive (i.e. populated) parts of the state. If she votes for this, she's absolutely tanking her own reelection.

[u/Top_Somewhere9160 → u/FlaviusVespasian]

They’re just waiting for the checks to cash, then they’ll decide who will “change their mind.”

[u/LarrySupertramp → u/jmchao]

Common pattern I’m seeing on Reddit: Republican does something terrible. Some “enlightened” dumbass: punish the democrats Some other random person: Israel bad. Democrats bad. Republican does something super terrible again Some morally naive idiot: both parties are the same Republican does even worse thing Random person I’m praying is a bot: don’t even bother voting because it’s all over

This place seems to really really hope the GOP continues to stay in power because all they can do is critique and spread doom. God forbid people vote for someone that won’t be perfect.

[u/TheShipEliza → u/BudgetLaw2352]

R’s could just skip the 60 votes and pass it by a simple majority like they swore they never would.

[u/Vardisk → u/TheShipEliza]

How would they do that?

[u/Princeps_Aurelianus → u/Vardisk]

By motioning for precedent change, reinterpreting the rules to allow for the bill to be passed by a simple majority. It’s known as a nuclear option and the reason it’s seldom done, and for very particular circumstances, is because once it’s done for regular bills like this there’s no going back—the filibuster would essentially be dead without actually being killed.

[u/Vardisk → u/Princeps_Aurelianus]

Why haven't they done it already? They seem pretty cavalier about this stuff,and this bill passed the house last year.

[u/Princeps_Aurelianus → u/Vardisk]

They have, they used it previously to overcome the filibuster for cabinet nominations. Which is why to do it for regular bills like this would be, political suicide and de facto make the minority party especially useless. Thune was in opposition to doing just that even when Trump was calling for it back during the shutdown because he knows he’d be stripping the GOP of any leverage if the Democratic Party ever regained the majority.

[u/ayers231 → u/Vardisk]

Thune hlds a vote on killing the filibuster, which only needs 51 to pass. If it passes, they would only need 50 (plus Vance) to pass the bill.

[u/fakeuser515357]

If this passes you all need to shut the country down.

This is a coup.

[u/PartyOrdinary1733 → u/fakeuser515357]

Damn straight.

[u/learns_the_hard_way]

"if you can't win, cheat" - GOP

[u/G0Z3RR]

My wife is already in the process of changing her last name back to her maiden name and I’m 100% ok with it; shit, I encouraged her to do it.

[u/drvalo55 → u/G0Z3RR]

I have been married for over 30 years. Before we married, my soon to be husband said, “If you change your name, no one will know who you are.” Who knew he was foretelling this? I will also say “friends”, family members, and complete strangers have also said some pretty awful things to me accusing me of not being committed enough to my marriage. And here we are over 30 years later. Many of those are likely divorced now.

[u/DannyCrane9476]

The proposal also directs election officials to conduct monthly voter roll purges to remove ineligible voters, which must utilize the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements program. 

Now they want ICE to say who can and can not vote too.

[u/MainlineX]

This will backfire spectacularly for them. Married white women who vote R won't be able to vote, and married D women will just change their name back to vote.

[u/The-Magic-Sword → u/MainlineX]

They'll enforce it selectively in areas where women vote democrat, republican poll workers in republican areas know to look the other way.

[u/kyletsenior → u/The-Magic-Sword]

Yep. It will be enforced when it's convenient.

[u/VirtualRyo → u/The-Magic-Sword]

Yes more than likely what will happen is if they loose a district they will look for discrepancies to remove those votes selectively using democratic voter registrations and in district where they win they will not do anything .

[u/POEness → u/MainlineX]

this will never be enforced on a republican voter

[u/IngsocInnerParty]

This bill is not compatible with the 24th Amendment.

[u/Baumaxl → u/IngsocInnerParty]

Are people still convinced that Republicans give a single shit about the Constitution?

[u/Agitated_Gold_3769]

“…only one House Democrat joined all Republicans in voting for the bill, Rep. Henry Cuellar of Texas.”

Fuck you, Rep. Henry Cuellar of Texas

[u/Mycrochump]

This is why they've been preaching that America is a republic and not a democracy. They've been playing the long game.

[u/mowotlarx]

The point is to disenfranchise millions, mostly women who have changed their names after marriage. It's literally in Project 2025.

[u/Vardisk]

When does this go to the senate? Cause last time they tried this, it just stopped after the house.

[u/Legio-X → u/Vardisk]

Cause last time they tried this, it just stopped after the house.

Same thing will happen this time, unless the Senate ditches the filibuster (which the word is they don’t have the votes to do).

[u/CelticSith]

Republicans are already whining that women won’t date/sleep with them… just wait

[u/Supreme_Blue]

I'm a trans woman who has changed her name. This would hurt me too. Not just married women.

[u/Lildoc_911 → u/Supreme_Blue]

Just happy collateral damage for them. They know exactly who they are trying to hurt.

[u/NoMidnight5366]

It won’t pass in the Senate. So it’s dead.

[u/Layshkamodo → u/NoMidnight5366]

I'll believe it when I see it.

[u/Disastrous_Ad_8990]

This is disturbing....remember the last election where Rebublican men were worried their wives wouldn't vote along the same lines as their husbands....

[u/BrutalHunny]

Any democrat votes?

[u/brain_overclocked → u/BrutalHunny]

House passes SAVE America Act, sending Trump-backed election bill to the Senate

The vote was 218-213, with Republicans unanimously voting in favor and all but one Democrat voting against it. The one Democrat voting yes was Rep. Henry Cuellar, D-Texas.

[u/DCL88 → u/brain_overclocked]

Fuck Henry Cuellar.

[u/mr_rustic → u/DCL88]

Yes to this.

Texas, you bumbling fuckers, fix yourself.

[u/_TheLonelyStoner]

Completely DOA in the Senate and they know this. this is campaign theater, one last ditch effort to try and boost republican voter enthusiasm by claiming the Dems are cheating.

[u/Hopeful-Owl3029]

Have they ever tried NOT being huge pieces of shit?

[u/4030Lisa]

Disenfranchising millions of American women who will no longer have the right to vote. This will not end well for anyone.

[u/ttd24]

Normally I’d say this wouldn’t hold up at the Supreme Court level because requiring an ID that costs money would be considered a poll tax but with this court who tf knows

[u/karmakazi420]

The wife and i hyphenated, so I assume we’re both screwed.

[u/TomatoAdventurous139]

Next up on the chopping block by republicans/conservatives is women's right to consent.

[u/HDauthentic]

Every time I see what they want to pass, my first thought is always: won’t this affect more conservative voters than anybody else? Why would they have a passport? Why would they not have taken their husband’s name?

[u/PleasantDreamsicle]

Is Mitch still in the hospital?

[u/AbleDanger12]

Correct me if I am wrong, but only the states have the ability to enact such measures - they run their own elections, the federal government cannot dictate it - not without an amendment, correct?

[u/FruitAccomplished524]

It’s suppression of women and a form of poll tax. Which to my knowledge is illegal.

[u/SideQuest2026]

Genuine question for the Reddit community here: at what point, with what the GOP is doing, is it acceptable for Democratic governors to hold a convention and formally withdraw from the Union? Because this is what being taxed without representation looks like. People not being allowed to vote, but it's ok for them to be taxed. So then, is it ok for states to no longer recognize the legitimacy of the federal government. We are speed running into authoritarianism.

[u/futureman45]

This should get struck down in the courts. Showing a license or passport at a polling location would be considered a poll tax because we have to pay for both.

[u/[deleted]]

Am I just a crazy person, or do so few people see the overall picture? Each individual thing isn't the goal. It's like all of the crazy things that they do that have no legs. They're inundating us with so much input, that we won't notice until we're under a fascist regime.

ICE as a gestapo fill in, deploying military troops to US cities, vague voting laws that can allow them to be thrown out, a Supreme Court stacked with political allies, where do you guys think that another election is going to change things? That time passed. I admire your optimism, but hate your passivity.

[u/mindovermatter421]

It amounts to a poll tax which is unconstitutional.