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.
Easy solution, just don’t marry anyone with a different last name.
That’s how MAGA does marriage, usually
Might go a long way in explaining those long jaws they frequently have
[Sweet Home Alabama intensifies]
Roll tide
Hmmm
Found the Kentuckian
I get the joke, but is it really so rare in the US for a woman to keep her own surname after marriage?
That was the point elsewhere here that it would hurt republicans more.
- republicans tend to be conservative, older, so are more likely for the woman to have changed her name
- democrats tend to be more liberal or more progressive or more educated, all of which are more likely for the woman to keep her name when getting married.
It’s actually pretty common for one person to take on the other’s last name.
My partner started out keeping hers, then took my last name after getting hassled over her name not matching our son’s in various situations.
This would make voting difficult for her.
They’ll go after each demographic whose voting habits favour democrats: Immigrants, women, educated, non-christian, poor, lbgtq+, young, non-white. Whichever ones you belong to, makes you a potential target of voter disenfranchisement. At he same time making it easier for: old, male, white, Christian, wealthy, uneducated, straight, multi-generational American.
Wait til you hear why they created a “war” on “drugs”!
If convicted felons can be president, they should be allowed to vote too.
Death by a thousand cuts. Each issue by itself might evoke a shrug, but put it all together, a very clear picture emerges.
BTW (and I’m sure you know) this has been going on for waaaay longer than MAGA. Arguably since the USA’s independence. Every conservative president seems to have added a little bit. The system is near completely eroded.
Depends on the immigrants, sadly.
As a non white lol why can’t I vote? I’m a legal citizen I will have no issue. I would like to know what rights the whites have over me?
Rights? Have you been paying attention?
They’re blatantly and regularly violating the first, second, fourth, and fifth amendments whenever they feel like it.
They’re absolutely going to have ICE around harassing anyone they think might vote blue, particularly people of color.
You aren’t wealthy enough to have rights.
What rights do people wealthier than me have?
Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness, to start with.
Grow up.
Lol so your answer is a catch phrase. Cause I notice the harm of using my people as a political football. This is why the part system is fucking stupid. Your fans just trying to help your team not the actual people
It’s NOT a “catch phrase,” it’s literally the opening of the Declaration of Independence, in which it is declared that our nation is founded on the concept that we have been endowed by GOD to have the INALIENABLE rights to Life, Liberty, and the a pursuit of Happiness.
Its not a catch phrase, it’s literally the foundation of American Democracy.
You have proven your ignorance for all to see. Stop talking now.
It’s feels weird Dems assuming I have less rights than them based on my ethnicity. What’s worse is I feel like Dems are trying to come from a good place with a good heart. But it’s starting to scare me that a group of people are ok with Latinos becoming second class citizens. As an illegal immigrant you can’t join a union or big company to get a good job. It’s causing illegal immigrants to have no choice but to take this jobs to survive.
You don’t know if you won’t have issues or not. Their whole goal is to create issues.
Live in a black area of a county in GA? Close down the polling station.
Look Hispanic near a polling station? Maybe ICE tackles you and arrests you for no reason.
Woman and your name doesn’t match? No vote.
It’s really not hard to understand what they’re trying to do. Whites don’t have more rights than you on paper. They would love to change that, and they start by bending and then breaking the law.
Never had an issue voting lol
This is what is referred to as anecdotal evidence. Go read up on voter suppression and gerrymandering.
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.
You will have to show Real ID before you vote.
The vast majority of Real ID(s) do not qualify under the new act. They do not state citizenship.
If I’m understanding this correctly, passports are also a valid form of citizenship. Passports are usually held by people who lean left, so this could be another advantage the left has in this insane proposition.
I hope passports will remain good enough. I was born to irresponsible teenagers and was legally adopted by one parent, and none of them gave me a copy of my birth certificate. I’m starting to worry that it would be worth tracking it down so I’ll have a copy just in case.
This is all so insane, getting our papers in order in case we need to show them to avoid getting disappeared.
No amount of documentation will be sufficient if they want you gone.
Does that mean Alabama women are safe?
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This is from USA Today. This is where political journalism is:
Will the SAVE America Act pass the Senate? Odds, predictions
The odds of the SAVE America Act passing the Senate and signed into law in 2026 are 12% according to the Polymarket betting odds, and the Kalshi market odds show 13.9% confidence that it will become law.
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And yet it doesn’t even make the top ten fucked up shit for today.
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TBF the betting platforms had higher accuracy than aggregate polls in 2024.
Betting platforms aggregate the beliefs of the people betting on them, but this means that biases of that group affect the odds.
People who receive and respond to polls are also a subset with biases.
That’s true, but also a group that has a real and vested interest in getting the answer RIGHT. That helps.
yes, but pollsters will try to account for that in their models
So do the bookies setting odds and the people betting. People don’t win money by getting their bets wrong.
For every mathematician who beat the lottery there are millions who did not.
That’s not how bookies set odds! They do it based on what people bet, so if 10 people bet against something and 20 bet for it, the same account each, the odds will be 2:1, reduced a bit so the bookies makes a profit. This guarantees that the bookies make money.
How is that any different from what I said? The simple ratio is an automatic adjustment for Bias.
Are you being serious?
Are you?
I definitely trust the prediction markets more than just about any poll.
IDK about that, but credit where due they aren’t a terrible source.
Nah, I once made a hundred bucks because they had Doug Jones losing to that pedo. They’d just as fallible as anything else.
I mean, nothing is 100%.
Well, nothing anyone would allow you to bet on.
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Do the Republicans really think they are going to benefit from a requirement that disenfranchises people who don’t have proof of citizenship like:
-Women who got married and took their husbands last name
-People who keep getting divorced over and over again
-People who have never travelled outside the USBear in mind that the people who are basically guaranteed to have their documents in order are:
-Recently naturalized citizens
-People who travel a lot
-Unmarried women
-People who graduated collegeSo your local lesbian coven of naturalized middle aged Latinas. They are going to have zero problem voting. Joe Bob the cousin fucker from Alabama who has never gotten more than 20 miles from his trailer park and doesn’t believe in “the gummet”, and hasn’t had a job that didn’t pay cash in his whole life? Yeah, that fucker doesn’t have a passport.
But hey, at least they are going to stop all the undocumented immigrants who already weren’t allowed to register to vote in the first place.
This is going to be like how they attacked absentee voting without realizing that the majority of absentees were retirees and the military.
Do the Republicans really think
Not usually
So your local lesbian coven of naturalized middle aged Latinas.
Just want to emphasize this hilarious line for anyone who doesn’t feel like reading the entire post. Please carry on.
Fascism
and Patriarchy
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.
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 😭😅
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
If your name doesn’t match what’s on your birth certificate, look into whether your state allows you to change your birth certificate and do it before it’s too late. My name is not my birth name or my married name, I had it legally changed. I got tired of hauling around my birth certificate, marriage certificate, divorce paperwork, and legal name change to show the paper trail that I both was who I was and was no longer legally married. Turns out in my state I just had to send in a notarized form, copies of my paperwork and pay small fee and I got my birth certificate updated to my current name. Now I can “prove” who I am by just showing my birth certificate and ignore the fact that I was married and changed my name. It also made updating my passport easier. Granted, I am not trans, but I did it last year and they had the option to change gender on the form.
How isn’t showing your passport sufficient evidence to tell you are who you tell you are?
Not everyone has their passport. If you do, that should be sufficient. It also made updating my passport easier, way less paperwork to send in. I’d never gotten around to updating my passport to the correct name and it was much less paperwork to send in.
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.
A lot of Republican men won’t be able to vote then.
Every day that passes, I hate these people more and more.
It’s not like it’s impossible for such people to vote, but getting your documents in order costs money.
Same for voting on a weekday, voting offices being only in affluent neighbourhoods, voting demanding an ID …No money, no democracy.
It also takes weeks or months to get official documents in order.
Yes, time too.
Don’t worry. They’ll have clear instructions on how to vote posted on the wall of the voting precinct on Tuesdays between 12 and 12:30 starting 15 days before the election.
Reminds me of:
Florida to experiment with new 600-lever voting machine - The Onion (YouTube video)
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.
But women who vote Democrat are more likely to keep their maiden name compared to Republican women.
So hear me out. Conservatives are more likely to take someone’s last name than a liberal couple right? Doesn’t this disproportionately disenfranchise Republican women? Could this potentially actually harm the Republican vote?
A lot of states have been banning name changes for trans people, I think this was a dumb attack on trans people.
When my wife and I married she only took my last name because her father abandoned her when she was 6 months old, and she wanted to erase that from her identity.
One of my male coworkers at a previous job did the same thing for the same reason, took his wife’s name.
Yeah. But the hit to potential Democratic voters will make it worth their while.
Essentially women would need to provide additional paperwork in order to vote. Republican women have that paperwork, or can get it easier.
What makes you think Republican women would have an easier time getting that paperwork?
As far as I know, the demographics of passport holding Americans skews slightly left, and more left leaning couples would be expected to have kept their maiden names upon marriage.
What makes you think Republican women would have an easier time getting that paperwork?
money and privilege?
Women aren’t the only people who change their names. I’m a straight white guy and I took my wife’s last name when we got married. So I’m affected by this dumbass shit too.
Marginally yes they are, but it’s still more common in my experience that the woman changes their name more often than not.
It’s a bit of paperwork, but it does make things easier when you have the same last name. Until president asshat decided to disenfranchise people.
I’d say the important statistic is that more conservative women get married overall
