No way it gets passed in the senate. Pretty sure that Thune has outright refused to end the filibuster.
If it does, Schumer better resign.
bleahdeebleah on
Yeah conservatives, lets make sure women no longer take their husband’s name. You’ll be good with that, right?
StrangerFew2424 on
More proof that Republicans hate Democracy…
nasorrty346tfrgser on
Well I hope the senate democrats would hold the line, but they have disappointed me too many times, so I can only hope
rednap_howell on
>Republicans have argued for voter ID broadly, pointing out that there isn’t much to prevent a noncitizen from casting a ballot in a federal election — besides the fact that it’s a felony, easily caught, and would lead to deportation all for the chance to cast one out of hundreds of thousands of votes.
On the other hand, election fraud is a much bigger issue.
Mycrochump on
This is why they’ve been preaching that America is a republic and not a democracy. They’ve been playing the long game.
CouchCorrespondent on
Fucking hell.
Well…check your voter registration or register to vote ASAP.
This site is run by The League of Women Voters and has tons of voting info for all states.
Fucking hell.
Puzzled_Spirit3754 on
So, I’m barred from voting if I took my husbands name now?
nerphurp on
Trump is pushing for them to kill the filibuster for them to pass this.
As with their gerrymandering attempts, passing this won’t save them. It’ll blow up in their faces should they go that route.
According_Gift_7095 on
They can only pass tax cuts for the rich and anti voting bills. If they weren’t obviously in it for the billionaires , this makes it obvious.
They do not respect us, they have nothing but contempt for us and they are the reason things that have 70% popular support can’t get passed (M4A, legal weed, etc) and shot that has 30% support sails thru.
CosmicMamaBear on
“The core of both racism and sexism — and other forms of prejudice — is a belief that people exist on a hierarchy. A person who subscribes to sexist beliefs thinks that men are better than women. A person who is racist believes that white people are better than people of color. Because these belief systems share a common ideology — the notion that some people are better than others based on certain unchangeable characteristics — it isn’t surprising that many people who are sexist are also racist, and vice versa.”. https://www.blackburncenter.org/post/the-link-between-racism-and-sexism
Radically-Peaceful on
This is part of their plan to actually destroy democracy.
Vardisk on
When does this go to the senate? Cause last time they tried this, it just stopped after the house.
Choice-of-SteinsGate on
Let’s make something abundantly clear. The Republican party’s obsession with enacting voter ID laws is nothing short of a deception.
What’s really dishonest and frankly outright corrupt about this whole campaign is that voter ID is not the only policy Republicans want to enact.
If you give them the chance to pass legislation like the “SAVE Act,” they will seize on the opportunity to roll back voting rights and impose widespread restraints. Voter ID just acts as a smokescreen and this is a compelling reason for obstructing their poorly disguised efforts to suppress the vote.
When it comes to “protecting the integrity of our elections,” voter ID is at the bottom of the list.
Republicans will tell you that voter ID policy is backed by bipartisan support, but what they won’t tell you is that they advocate for strict requirements which would exclude most basic forms of ID.
Americans support using these basic forms of ID to vote, but there is no data showing support for narrower requirements. This is because these requirements would act as an obstacle, not a preventative measure.
Additionally, ID requirements exist in other countries because obtaining IDs in these countries is easier and voting is more accessible. Governments also automatically issue IDs to citizens in many countries where ID is required to vote.
Republicans often argue against the use of basic forms of ID and automatic ID issuance. Ask yourself why Republicans clamor on and on for voter ID requirements, yet push back against policies that would help make voter ID a reality?
And if all of that wasn’t enough, other systemic issues exist that act as impediments to free and fair elections.
Analyses show that when states have fair maps, drawn by independent commissions, representation is more evenly split—especially in Republican controlled states where Democrats gain seats when they otherwise wouldn’t due to partisan redistricting efforts. When those same states are gerrymandered to hell, Republicans win more seats.
Republicans also tend to be overrepresented in state legislatures, meaning they have broader control of gerrymandering.
The GOP is capitalizing on this opportunity to consolidate power for the foreseeable future. Which means that their redistricting wars and voter suppression efforts will be ongoing, and the more this continues, the more it will chip away at the democratic process.
In order to address this, gerrymandering practices must be eliminated, and redistricting must be left up to independent commissions in every state.
The Citizens United ruling and our campaign finance system are also major obstacles standing in the way of free and fair elections.
The rich and corporations have disproportionate control over the outcomes of our elections and far too much political influence. What’s needed to address these problems are:
1. A complete overhaul of how our elections and candidate’s campaigns are funded.
2. Significant campaign finance reforms that necessitate 100% transparency, publicly funded campaigns and predominant grassroots support, and
massive regulations on Super PACs, lobbyists and political advocacy groups.
3. An end to Citizens United.
We must also address foreign election interference efforts and the Republican party’s failure to confront this pressing issue because they have benefitted politically from foreign election meddling for the last several elections.
That said, if MAGA is genuinely intent on “protecting the integrity of our elections” and the democratic process, they should turn their attention to the myriad systemic issues that Donald Trump and the Republican party are hell bent on preserving instead of obsessing over unsubstantiated conspiracy theories from five years ago.
But they won’t… Instead they are fixated on this imaginary issue because that’s precisely what those deciding our elections want from them.
**Part Two**
US elections already have multiple layers of protection in place to prevent widespread election tampering.
Several safeguards, legal deterrents, eligibility requirements, audits and paper trails already exist and act as very effective measures against voter and election fraud.
Proof of citizenship requirements also exist and ID verification is already required in several states.
Up till now, these measures have acted as an effective deterrent to fraud, but ever since Trump began denying elections without proof and lying to his voters so he could conspire to overturn the results of a free and fair election, those same voters have been pushing for needless policies that seek to address a fictional problem.
Republicans have revealed their intention to suppress the vote through multiple measures designed to make the voting process more challenging for those that tend to vote against them.
In other countries, election/voting laws and polling procedures often make voting simpler and more convenient, but in the US, republican-backed voting laws, regulations and restrictions tend to make it more difficult to vote—especially for citizens located in urban areas and cities.
Republicans have been steadily suppressing the vote for years; an effort accelerated in the aftermath of January 6th and by Trump’s ‘big lie” of a stolen election.
To make matters worse, Trump has been federalizing the military and law enforcement, while deputizing trigger happy and unaccountable ICE thugs in order to centralize authoritarian control over US cities and urban areas; a paramilitary presence he now openly plans to utilize to suppress the vote in upcoming elections.
The GOP has seized on this post Jan 6 environment to sow distrust in our elections. They have piggybacked off Trump’s lies of election fraud; tapping into a stockpile of conspiracy theories, lies, and misinformation to dissuade and deceive the public, and to carry out a nationwide campaign of disenfranchisement and voter suppression.
Republicans exploit the misinformed, take advantage of the ignorance, the partisanship and the mindless distrust of their voters to give themselves the legal authority to challenge election results while providing their party with more power, control and supervision over our election system.
They have the capability now to deny, subvert, legally contest and overturn future elections with near impunity.
Republicans are consolidating power at an alarming rate; abusing their trifecta and their control over state legislatures to give themselves the ultimate say on how maps are drawn; unilaterally deciding who their voters are and not the other way around.
This brazen mid-census redistricting effort would also not be possible without Trump giving himself and his party a license to say f-ck all to democratic norms for the sake of maintaining their grip on power.
On top of all of this, Republicans are trying to scheme their way through the courts to dilute the minority vote by challenging section 2 of the voting Rights Act. A historically significant provision meant to protect marginalized voters from being unfairly sequestered and disenfranchised.
Republicans have the gall to say they’re “protecting the integrity of elections,” while making every effort to subvert the vote, crudely redraw maps, purge voter rolls, limit voter participation, alter the census in their favor, reshape districts along racial lines, and influence election outcomes.
Republicans have all but succeeded at diverting attention away from their continued efforts to erode the democratic process.
learns_the_hard_way on
“if you can’t win, cheat” – GOP
_bk_adv on
Trump has done ZERO in 5 years of office to help the average American. Zero. Not a single thing.
TomatoAdventurous139 on
Next up on the chopping block by republicans/conservatives is women’s right to consent.
HDauthentic on
Every time I see what they want to pass, my first thought is always: won’t this affect more conservative voters than anybody else? Why would they have a passport? Why would they not have taken their husband’s name?
tacs97 on
We the people are so fucking stupid. Come on republicans. Aren’t you tired of being lied to? The bush admin took rights away in the name of terrorism. Today’s administration is taking rights away in the name of immigration! I don’t understand why these fools can’t see past this bullshit excuse to impede on your privacy and take your constitutional rights away! Just because it’s not happening to you at this very moment, doesn’t mean that law won’t affect you the same way it’s effecting today’s people.
OneMoreLayerDeep on
Could we be proactive and help everyone prepare for this possibility? Put out public messaging and help get people ready, similar to a “register to vote” drive. It wont fix the problem, but could limit the damage.
CelticSith on
Republicans are already whining that women won’t date/sleep with them… just wait
MainlineX on
This will backfire spectacularly for them. Married white women who vote R won’t be able to vote, and married D women will just change their name back to vote.
rat_penis on
And let me guess if it passes it goes into effect before the midterms?
mowotlarx on
The point is to disenfranchise millions, mostly women who have changed their names after marriage. It’s literally in Project 2025.
PWL51 on
No different than the Taliban regime .
4030Lisa on
Disenfranchising millions of American women who will no longer have the right to vote. This will not end well for anyone.
NoMidnight5366 on
It won’t pass in the Senate. So it’s dead.
Mamasan- on
Soooo make it more difficult to vote but won’t release pedo names. Ok.
Appropriate_Formal64 on
Doesn’t this thing also require you appear in person with your *birth certificate* !? I forget what all it entails, but it seems like it’s gonna make voting a massive pain in the ass for basically everybody, including their own base.
Specialist-Day6721 on
Thune has said he will not nuke the filibuster for this, it’s DOA in the Senate
karmakazi420 on
The wife and i hyphenated, so I assume we’re both screwed.
Honky_Stonk_Man on
Their own base will hate this bill too. They want democrats to jump through hoops, but they don’t want to do the same. Voter shits is stuff they like to rant about, not actually do anything.
Hopeful-Owl3029 on
Have they ever tried NOT being huge pieces of shit?
Supreme_Blue on
I’m a trans woman who has changed her name. This would hurt me too. Not just married women.
planetrainguy on
There are a lot of people in rural and uneducated areas that definitely don’t have a passport, could this backfire on the people supporting this lol?
dayzdayv on
This is essentially the death blow for any hope for the midterms.
What_a_fat_one on
Democrats who voted yes:
Henry Cuellar – TX
Jared F Golden – ME
Ed Case – HI
Marie Perez – WA
There needs to be a national effort to crowd fund primaries against these people right this second to scare away any defections in the Senate.
bean0_burrito on
i don’t usually support older methods of punishment.
but these inbreds are quickly becoming an exception
ElkImaginary566 on
Crazy how many adults are just going along with this
fakeuser515357 on
If this passes you all need to shut the country down.
This is a coup.
_TheLonelyStoner on
Completely DOA in the Senate and they know this. this is campaign theater, one last ditch effort to try and boost republican voter enthusiasm by claiming the Dems are cheating.
IngsocInnerParty on
This bill is not compatible with the 24th Amendment.
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Any democrat votes?
No way it gets passed in the senate. Pretty sure that Thune has outright refused to end the filibuster.
If it does, Schumer better resign.
Yeah conservatives, lets make sure women no longer take their husband’s name. You’ll be good with that, right?
More proof that Republicans hate Democracy…
Well I hope the senate democrats would hold the line, but they have disappointed me too many times, so I can only hope
>Republicans have argued for voter ID broadly, pointing out that there isn’t much to prevent a noncitizen from casting a ballot in a federal election — besides the fact that it’s a felony, easily caught, and would lead to deportation all for the chance to cast one out of hundreds of thousands of votes.
On the other hand, election fraud is a much bigger issue.
This is why they’ve been preaching that America is a republic and not a democracy. They’ve been playing the long game.
Fucking hell.
Well…check your voter registration or register to vote ASAP.
[vote411.org](http://vote411.org)
This site is run by The League of Women Voters and has tons of voting info for all states.
Fucking hell.
So, I’m barred from voting if I took my husbands name now?
Trump is pushing for them to kill the filibuster for them to pass this.
As with their gerrymandering attempts, passing this won’t save them. It’ll blow up in their faces should they go that route.
They can only pass tax cuts for the rich and anti voting bills. If they weren’t obviously in it for the billionaires , this makes it obvious.
They do not respect us, they have nothing but contempt for us and they are the reason things that have 70% popular support can’t get passed (M4A, legal weed, etc) and shot that has 30% support sails thru.
“The core of both racism and sexism — and other forms of prejudice — is a belief that people exist on a hierarchy. A person who subscribes to sexist beliefs thinks that men are better than women. A person who is racist believes that white people are better than people of color. Because these belief systems share a common ideology — the notion that some people are better than others based on certain unchangeable characteristics — it isn’t surprising that many people who are sexist are also racist, and vice versa.”. https://www.blackburncenter.org/post/the-link-between-racism-and-sexism
This is part of their plan to actually destroy democracy.
When does this go to the senate? Cause last time they tried this, it just stopped after the house.
Let’s make something abundantly clear. The Republican party’s obsession with enacting voter ID laws is nothing short of a deception.
What’s really dishonest and frankly outright corrupt about this whole campaign is that voter ID is not the only policy Republicans want to enact.
If you give them the chance to pass legislation like the “SAVE Act,” they will seize on the opportunity to roll back voting rights and impose widespread restraints. Voter ID just acts as a smokescreen and this is a compelling reason for obstructing their poorly disguised efforts to suppress the vote.
When it comes to “protecting the integrity of our elections,” voter ID is at the bottom of the list.
Republicans will tell you that voter ID policy is backed by bipartisan support, but what they won’t tell you is that they advocate for strict requirements which would exclude most basic forms of ID.
Americans support using these basic forms of ID to vote, but there is no data showing support for narrower requirements. This is because these requirements would act as an obstacle, not a preventative measure.
Additionally, ID requirements exist in other countries because obtaining IDs in these countries is easier and voting is more accessible. Governments also automatically issue IDs to citizens in many countries where ID is required to vote.
Republicans often argue against the use of basic forms of ID and automatic ID issuance. Ask yourself why Republicans clamor on and on for voter ID requirements, yet push back against policies that would help make voter ID a reality?
And if all of that wasn’t enough, other systemic issues exist that act as impediments to free and fair elections.
Analyses show that when states have fair maps, drawn by independent commissions, representation is more evenly split—especially in Republican controlled states where Democrats gain seats when they otherwise wouldn’t due to partisan redistricting efforts. When those same states are gerrymandered to hell, Republicans win more seats.
Republicans also tend to be overrepresented in state legislatures, meaning they have broader control of gerrymandering.
The GOP is capitalizing on this opportunity to consolidate power for the foreseeable future. Which means that their redistricting wars and voter suppression efforts will be ongoing, and the more this continues, the more it will chip away at the democratic process.
In order to address this, gerrymandering practices must be eliminated, and redistricting must be left up to independent commissions in every state.
The Citizens United ruling and our campaign finance system are also major obstacles standing in the way of free and fair elections.
The rich and corporations have disproportionate control over the outcomes of our elections and far too much political influence. What’s needed to address these problems are:
1. A complete overhaul of how our elections and candidate’s campaigns are funded.
2. Significant campaign finance reforms that necessitate 100% transparency, publicly funded campaigns and predominant grassroots support, and
massive regulations on Super PACs, lobbyists and political advocacy groups.
3. An end to Citizens United.
We must also address foreign election interference efforts and the Republican party’s failure to confront this pressing issue because they have benefitted politically from foreign election meddling for the last several elections.
That said, if MAGA is genuinely intent on “protecting the integrity of our elections” and the democratic process, they should turn their attention to the myriad systemic issues that Donald Trump and the Republican party are hell bent on preserving instead of obsessing over unsubstantiated conspiracy theories from five years ago.
But they won’t… Instead they are fixated on this imaginary issue because that’s precisely what those deciding our elections want from them.
**Part Two**
US elections already have multiple layers of protection in place to prevent widespread election tampering.
Several safeguards, legal deterrents, eligibility requirements, audits and paper trails already exist and act as very effective measures against voter and election fraud.
Proof of citizenship requirements also exist and ID verification is already required in several states.
Up till now, these measures have acted as an effective deterrent to fraud, but ever since Trump began denying elections without proof and lying to his voters so he could conspire to overturn the results of a free and fair election, those same voters have been pushing for needless policies that seek to address a fictional problem.
Republicans have revealed their intention to suppress the vote through multiple measures designed to make the voting process more challenging for those that tend to vote against them.
In other countries, election/voting laws and polling procedures often make voting simpler and more convenient, but in the US, republican-backed voting laws, regulations and restrictions tend to make it more difficult to vote—especially for citizens located in urban areas and cities.
Republicans have been steadily suppressing the vote for years; an effort accelerated in the aftermath of January 6th and by Trump’s ‘big lie” of a stolen election.
To make matters worse, Trump has been federalizing the military and law enforcement, while deputizing trigger happy and unaccountable ICE thugs in order to centralize authoritarian control over US cities and urban areas; a paramilitary presence he now openly plans to utilize to suppress the vote in upcoming elections.
The GOP has seized on this post Jan 6 environment to sow distrust in our elections. They have piggybacked off Trump’s lies of election fraud; tapping into a stockpile of conspiracy theories, lies, and misinformation to dissuade and deceive the public, and to carry out a nationwide campaign of disenfranchisement and voter suppression.
Republicans exploit the misinformed, take advantage of the ignorance, the partisanship and the mindless distrust of their voters to give themselves the legal authority to challenge election results while providing their party with more power, control and supervision over our election system.
They have the capability now to deny, subvert, legally contest and overturn future elections with near impunity.
Republicans are consolidating power at an alarming rate; abusing their trifecta and their control over state legislatures to give themselves the ultimate say on how maps are drawn; unilaterally deciding who their voters are and not the other way around.
This brazen mid-census redistricting effort would also not be possible without Trump giving himself and his party a license to say f-ck all to democratic norms for the sake of maintaining their grip on power.
On top of all of this, Republicans are trying to scheme their way through the courts to dilute the minority vote by challenging section 2 of the voting Rights Act. A historically significant provision meant to protect marginalized voters from being unfairly sequestered and disenfranchised.
Republicans have the gall to say they’re “protecting the integrity of elections,” while making every effort to subvert the vote, crudely redraw maps, purge voter rolls, limit voter participation, alter the census in their favor, reshape districts along racial lines, and influence election outcomes.
Republicans have all but succeeded at diverting attention away from their continued efforts to erode the democratic process.
“if you can’t win, cheat” – GOP
Trump has done ZERO in 5 years of office to help the average American. Zero. Not a single thing.
Next up on the chopping block by republicans/conservatives is women’s right to consent.
Every time I see what they want to pass, my first thought is always: won’t this affect more conservative voters than anybody else? Why would they have a passport? Why would they not have taken their husband’s name?
We the people are so fucking stupid. Come on republicans. Aren’t you tired of being lied to? The bush admin took rights away in the name of terrorism. Today’s administration is taking rights away in the name of immigration! I don’t understand why these fools can’t see past this bullshit excuse to impede on your privacy and take your constitutional rights away! Just because it’s not happening to you at this very moment, doesn’t mean that law won’t affect you the same way it’s effecting today’s people.
Could we be proactive and help everyone prepare for this possibility? Put out public messaging and help get people ready, similar to a “register to vote” drive. It wont fix the problem, but could limit the damage.
Republicans are already whining that women won’t date/sleep with them… just wait
This will backfire spectacularly for them. Married white women who vote R won’t be able to vote, and married D women will just change their name back to vote.
And let me guess if it passes it goes into effect before the midterms?
The point is to disenfranchise millions, mostly women who have changed their names after marriage. It’s literally in Project 2025.
No different than the Taliban regime .
Disenfranchising millions of American women who will no longer have the right to vote. This will not end well for anyone.
It won’t pass in the Senate. So it’s dead.
Soooo make it more difficult to vote but won’t release pedo names. Ok.
Doesn’t this thing also require you appear in person with your *birth certificate* !? I forget what all it entails, but it seems like it’s gonna make voting a massive pain in the ass for basically everybody, including their own base.
Thune has said he will not nuke the filibuster for this, it’s DOA in the Senate
The wife and i hyphenated, so I assume we’re both screwed.
Their own base will hate this bill too. They want democrats to jump through hoops, but they don’t want to do the same. Voter shits is stuff they like to rant about, not actually do anything.
Have they ever tried NOT being huge pieces of shit?
I’m a trans woman who has changed her name. This would hurt me too. Not just married women.
There are a lot of people in rural and uneducated areas that definitely don’t have a passport, could this backfire on the people supporting this lol?
This is essentially the death blow for any hope for the midterms.
Democrats who voted yes:
Henry Cuellar – TX
Jared F Golden – ME
Ed Case – HI
Marie Perez – WA
There needs to be a national effort to crowd fund primaries against these people right this second to scare away any defections in the Senate.
i don’t usually support older methods of punishment.
but these inbreds are quickly becoming an exception
Crazy how many adults are just going along with this
If this passes you all need to shut the country down.
This is a coup.
Completely DOA in the Senate and they know this. this is campaign theater, one last ditch effort to try and boost republican voter enthusiasm by claiming the Dems are cheating.
This bill is not compatible with the 24th Amendment.