• disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world
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    If this bill passes in the Senate, it would require a license or REAL ID as well as proof of citizenship in order to vote. If your name is different on your license/REAL ID than it is on your birth certificate, you will need to get a passport in order to be eligible to vote. This would disenfranchise an estimated 70 million married and trans people.

    They need 60 votes to pass this in the Senate, which would require all Republicans as well as seven Democrats. Call and message your Senators and tell them to vote NAY on the SAVE Act!

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        And trans people. And a large number of Latino people who use a simplified name.

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        It’ll affect Republican women more than Democrat women (because they’re more likely to take their husband’s surname than Democrats are), but there are more Democrat women for it to affect