How safe is your right to vote?

[MsAmerica]

Any sane person thought a woman's right to vote was secure, a done deal, right?

Apparently not in America. Who knows who's next?

House Republican schemes to deprive millions of women of voting rights
A prominent member of the hard right House “Freedom Caucus,” Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, plans to deprive millions of women of their rights to vote, a prominent member of the Progressive Democrats of America says.
Roy is pushing a bill, HR22, the SAVE Act, which PDA member Mickey Leader warned could cut female voter turnout by 30%.
https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/house-republican-schemes-to-deprive-millions-of-women-of-voting-rights/

I flicked through the article. They want a person’s current ID to match their voter registration name.

So you need relevant ID to vote?

Removing a large number of women from the voting population won't help get better leaders though.

The act’s restriction that knocks out women is simple, Leader said. It requires anyone showing up to vote to bring identification with a name identical to the one they used when first registering.

Well... if I was in a state with this requirement and getting married, for sure I wouldn't be changing my name. If it goes ahead I hope that's the unintended consequence rather than disenfranchising married women.

Yes, but the SAVE is on the Fed level, impacting all the states.

And, the SAVE Act also bans mail and online voter registration. Combined, 18 million people used those ways to register in 2022. Helping someone else to register would be a felony, punishable by five years in prison. And the SAVE Act “would mandate frequent voter purges,” which are also unfair to women and people of color, the center adds.

@Cnon - right... I was thinking of 'Nation state' too when I wrote that.

It does seem like a move designed to disenfranchise more vulnerable sections of their society.

In fact, possibly the opposite.