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[–] DeusUmbra@lemmy.world 13 points 6 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 3 points 6 days ago

or have a MINDER like with putins election, to make sure you vote the right candidate.

[–] selkiesidhe@lemm.ee 16 points 6 days ago

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

[–] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 5 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Thankfully they're not blocking online or mail-in voting.

[–] aceshigh@lemmy.world 11 points 6 days ago

Not yet. Just wait and see.

[–] ProfHillbilly@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

North Carolina says hold my beer.

[–] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 4 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

I mean federally. I'd just register in another State if the State was an issue.

[–] floofloof 210 points 1 week ago (3 children)

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.

[–] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 70 points 1 week ago (3 children)

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.

[–] Kookie215@lemmy.world 11 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I work with the homeless all over the country and the most common theme is that they rarely have all the paperwork to get their ID.

[–] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 7 points 6 days ago

I talk to a lot of people who think voter ID requirements are no big deal, because they have always had an ID. They cannot fathom anyone living a life that doesn't conform to their experiences.

[–] ShittDickk@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Honestly i'm gonna laugh when the 2nd gen immigrant vote turns out because they all have passports to visit family.

[–] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

Why do you think they are targeting birthright citizenship? Just gonna declare all those minorities illegal immigrants and ship them to the concentration camps in El Salvador.

[–] atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 36 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Also, I’m adopted…

My name was changed in the decree and not on my birth certificate.

[–] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 16 points 6 days ago

I changed my last name cause I ain't being called the name of my fucken rapist.

[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 44 points 1 week ago (1 children)

GOP: Putting the "suffer" back into suffragette

[–] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 42 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

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!

[–] flicker@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 points 1 week ago

Every time some liberal recommends peaceful protest, I yell that MLK Jr. couldn't have got where he got without Malcolm X, that Stonewall was a riot, and if someone takes away my right to vote, I'm going to behave in the way that got my foremothers the right to vote!

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[–] BigMacHole@lemm.ee 78 points 1 week ago (10 children)

I can't WAIT for Chuck Schumer And His Democrats to do LITERALLY NOTHING to Stop this or Slow it Down in ANY WAY, SHAPE OR FORM!

[–] barneypiccolo@lemm.ee 22 points 1 week ago (1 children)

"We've tried nothing, and we're all out of ideas. They win this round, but we aren't giving up, and will continue to resist all efforts to end their reign of terror. Send money."

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[–] barneypiccolo@lemm.ee 58 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (10 children)

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.

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[–] WoodScientist@sh.itjust.works 52 points 1 week ago (5 children)

As a trans woman who both legally changed her birth name AND took her husband's last name when getting married:

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[–] Theprogressivist@lemmy.world 49 points 1 week ago (31 children)

And nothing will be done about it.

[–] zephorah@lemm.ee 29 points 1 week ago

There’s no agency to ride to the rescue. It’s just the government and We The People, for better or worse.

[–] inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world 22 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm sure that Schumer and Jefferies will be looking for a nice bipartisanship solution to deny women the right to vote here.

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[–] Bob_Robertson_IX@discuss.tchncs.de 29 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

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[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 25 points 1 week ago (1 children)

4 DINOs also voted for the bills, apparently there are in red districts.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 12 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Dems pretending to be Republicans so they don't lose their jobs always, always, always works. Just ask anyone serving in a Texas/Florida swing seat.

[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

theres at least 10 Dinos in the senates, practically republicans that cant beat a maga candidate.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

Some of the biggest DINOs are from solid blue states.

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