The SAVE Act and Women’s Votes: Reform or Suppression?

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The SAVE Act would require proof of citizenship documents that an estimated 69 million American women don’t have — because their legal names changed after marriage and no longer match their birth certificates. Is this a voting reform, or voter suppression in disguise? And what would it actually take to protect every eligible American’s right to vote?

[CAndrew]

The state where I live requires voters to verify their citizenship already. I don’t understand why the Federal government introduced another layer of the same type of citizenship verification, except making it more difficult by requiring birth certificates that would match a married woman’s name that she may have changed when she married. Adding the extra layer and making it harder to qualify to vote smells like voter suppression to me. If anything, the Fed should be making it easier for citizens to vote, if they in fact want more citizens to vote.

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