I just want to add a comment to those thinking the voting marital name change issue is not a problem

[hlthe2b]

152. For gawd's sakes, ancianita, it is an equity issue and an intentional effort to disenfranchise women!

Especially poor women, those less informed women. And while NH has already passed this, at least allowing those women who CAN to try to address it, the Congressional strategy seems clearly aimed at passing so close to the next election that women (even those who could try to address it will not have the time to do so.

Even those on this thread who don't give a damn about disenfranchising women-who may not ever have received their birth certificate from their now dead parents, nor requested one since they don't and won't ever travel and get a passport, nor find out that they will need BOTH a birth certificate AND proof of marriage/divorce or both in order to be able to have the documents necessary to vote, well many of these women vote for Democrats. DOES THAT BOTH THOSE WHO POOPOO this as an issue? I ask you? Does it?
Yet men (especially the white males who reliably vote Republican) go about their merry way and are not asked for any damned thing nor to have to do anything to prove they are the name on their voter registration, Driver's License REAL ID, and that there is no mismatch on THEIR birth certificate if asked.

Please tell the poor women working paycheck to paycheck and who could not afford the more than $76 that I paid for a certified birth certificate (note: even if they have one form prior to the 1970s, those CERTIFIED photocopies are not considered adequate) that they should just travel to their state of birth and get one--thereby avoiding the electronic validation expenses. Or even if they still live in their state of birth, just take off work and go down there. GEEBUS! What is wrong with some people on this issue? Does equity toward women mean NOTHING to some--even on a Democratic/Progressive website?

Yes, while none of this impacts ME directly, it still impacts ALL of us. I just refuse to ignore it!!