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cross-posted from: https://infosec.pub/post/42694823
Trump has no power to “decree” that voters must present ID or to end mail-in balloting. But that doesn’t mean he can’t at least try both. Under the Insurrection Act or some other dusty statute, he can declare a state of emergency. Then he can decide that said state permits, nay requires, him to take extraordinary measures. On October 5, say, that might mean outlawing early voting. By October 13, it might mean no mail-in voting. By October 29, a reminder that all voters must present ID to vote. And by Sunday, November 1, two days before the election—an announcement that all these “reasonable” measures have alas failed, and he is now forced, against his will, to postpone the election.
One problem is that they decided to change the ID situation so that everyone has to have a “Real ID,” in which your name has to match what’s on your birth certificate, or else have supporting documents like marriage certificates or divorce papers. So it’s easy for men, who never change their names, but can be problematic for women who can change their names multiple times, depending on marriages and divorces.
My wife and I were married in the Caribbean over 30 years ago. We have no idea what happened to our marriage certificate, we haven’t found it in decades, it must have gone missing during a move or something. We’ve requested a copy several times over the last decade. It only costs about $10, and we’ve spent over $100 trying to get a copy. They keep the money, and send nothing. Over and over. My wife STILL doesn’t have a valid Real ID because of it. We live in a state that doesn’t care what Trump wants, so it isn’t an issue for voting, but she hasn’t tried flying yet.
So IDs aren’t nearly as easy for many women, and the female vote is a problem for MAGA. Some have even suggested that the vote be removed from women, because that’s how MAGA thinks: If the people don’t like what were doing, we don’t change what we’re doing, we just suppress the rights of anyone whose complaining.
How come she cant just get an ID in here maiden name ? Is that good enough to then vote ? Fly ?
You could do a vow renewal at your local courthouse and get a “new” marriage license from them.
Edit: but yeah, stupid additional barriers…
Yeah, we’ve thought of that, and we may have to. I wonder what that does to all the things we’ve done together in the last 30+ years. If we get married now, does that mean that we weren’t married before, making all our legal paperwork for mortgages, loans, credit card, etc. fraudulent?
It sounds dumb, but if the government decides to target someone, and they uncover this “marriage fraud scheme,” they could use it to really clobber someone, if they wanted to. We’ve seen where MAGA loves to exploit loopholes like this.
So you’re arguing that because your own Caribbean government screwed you, there can be no voter ID? That line of thought is insane. Blame the Caribbean gov for the problem.
BTW, how do you live for 30 years without ID? In EU it’s nearly impossible
We’re Americans, who got married in the Caribbean. We eloped, it was romantic.
My wife has had a driver’s license like everyone else, but a few years ago, they declared that everyone had to get a NEW ID that required these extra steps and documents - but only for women. It was to “discourage terrorism,” although I doubt it’s stopped a single instance.
So without a marriage certificate, she can’t get a Real ID, which is already required to fly, and MAGA wants to make it a requirement to vote. My wife, through no fault of her own, can’t get the docs she needs to get a REAL ID, so she won’t be able to vote under the MAGA proposal.
And I’m sure she’s not alone. MAGA knows that this new policy, which women have never had to navigate before, will keep at least some women from voting. So they cut off some votes here, cut off some more with voter roll purges, discourage voting by cutting off mail-in votes, prohibiting or decreasing early voting, closing polling places in populated cities, while leaving sparsely populated rural polling places open, etc., and the result is that a few percentage of your enemies can’t vote, and in a race that is only a couple of points apart or less, that may be enough to win.
You don’t have to get a new ID
They don’t like that your old one doesn’t have a record in a centralized government database.
I am never getting a “Real ID”. I pay the extra $40 fee every flight. FUCK YOU NAZI TRUMP
Except when your driver’s license expires, you don’t have a choice. And if you’re a man, it isn’t a problem. You show your birth certificate, and you’re done. A woman has to explain and document name changes from marriages and divorces.
Frankly, if I were a woman getting married today, I wouldn’t change my name. I can’t believe that tradition hasn’t died decades ago.
My state allows me to get a State drivers license that is not Real-ID compliant.
My state-issued drivers license does not have on it:
It is in part because of this somewhat recent Amendment to our Constitution
https://www.nh.gov/glance/state-constitution/bill-rights
How is it “their Carribean government”? They just took a vacation and got married it sounds like.
They have a state issued ID, just not a “REAL ID”.
Exactly.
They didn’t live without ID for 30 years, there are now more strict requirements for obtaining one, and older IDs that don’t fit the new qualifications aren’t accepted for things like flying. Many countries especially 30 years ago might not have digital records of marriages, people born in the US are having the same issue obtaining birth certificates from rural hospitals, or some people born in the US decades ago never received a birth certificate.