Apparently under Texas’ new Voting Registration law, thousands of names are being removed from the voting rolls because … well, just because. Apparently they have had a total of one case of voter fraud over the past dozen years. That’s not 1%, that’s 1. Clearly, this is a major problem in a state with millions of people.
The latest news is that they are removing women who did not take their husband’s name under Texas law. Yes, you read that right — if you get married in Texas, you have to take your husband’s name. You have no choice in the matter. Your legal name will change even if you continue to call yourself by your maiden name.
And guess what? If you registered under your maiden name, you will no longer be allowed to vote because it’s not your freakin’ legal name any more. It doesn’t matter that the address is the same, the license is the same, your social security number is the same. You can’t vote.
As we can see, this fights voter fraud.
No, wait. No, it doesn’t do that in the slightest. Instead, it stops those women who refuse to take their husband’s name. You know — Democrats.
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Mike, I was all ready to post a snarky, “Well, we don’t want any women voting who might think for themselves” reply–especially as someone who gets tired of being asked for her “maiden name”–but I can’t find any references that confirm that TX forces women to use their “married name.”
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Yii-Haw! It’s Texan tradition to brand your Ux and Oxen
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Texas is getting sued for their policy on excluding married women because the name on their driver’s license doesn’t match the one on their birth certificate. So if they’re’s been a name change, she’d have to bring in her marriage license, divorce papers, etc. If she no longer has those things, they’re not exactly free to get back.
But I can’t find anyone saying the thing about forcing them to use their “married name”. Post sources, please?
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I can’t find it either; I was relying on a report from the Rachel Maddow show and may have misinterpreted what she had said. What I did find were reports of women who were married and had not changed their licenses being refused to vote, including a judge (!) who had been voting under her maiden name for many years without a problem.
So I apologize if I got the “have to take husband’s name” part wrong. My bad.
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