The proposed
Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act, or #SAVE #Act,
now considered a priority for Republicans in the House,
will make it harder, if not practically impossible, for millions of women to vote.
The SAVE Act would require documentation, such as a passport or birth certificate matching your current legal name to allow a person to register to vote.
These requirements would pose a challenge to broad swaths of the country, but would fall especially hard on women.
Eight in 10 married women in opposite-sex marriages took their spouse’s last name,
and the bill could exclude over 69 millionmarried American women whose names do not match their birth certificate.
One Brennan Center for Justice study found that one third of American women do not have access to any documents with their current legal name.
About half of Americans do not have a passport, a costly process that adds a financial burden for those who have had any name change throughout their lives.
The SAVE Act pretends to create guardrails against noncitizen voter fraud -- a vanishingly small problem that the nonpartisan Brennan Center found in only 0.0001 percent of jurisdictions surveyed after the 2016 election.
Even The Heritage Foundation, which promotes the phantom crisis of noncitizen voting and Donald Trump’s lie that Democrats were purposely letting migrants into the country so they could vote,
can’t fudge the numbers to back up its claims.
The Heritage Foundation has tracked election fraud cases for decades,
finding only 85 cases of alleged noncitizen voting between 2002–2023.
The SAVE Act is also unnecessary as it is already quite illegal for noncitizens to vote in federal elections.
So the law, which won’t help solve an already nearly nonexistent problem, makes very little sense
—unless, of course, disenfranchising millions of women is the point.
https://newrepublic.com/article/191420/christian-nationalism-save-act-voter-suppression
Je me souviens 
