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Texas Has Found A Way To Deny Women The Vote. Voter Suppression?
by Egberto Willies
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/10/18/1248705/-Texas-Has-Found-A-Way-To-Deny-Women-The-Vote-Voter-Suppression
This year seem to be the year that America has taken several steps backward. The Supreme Court has started the rebirth of Jim Crow laws when it gutted the Voting Rights Act (VRA). Immediately after that ruling Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott tweeted Eric Holder can no longer deny #VoterID in #Texas after today's #SCOTUS decision. #txlege #tcot #txgop
Yesterday the The New Civil Rights Movement reported the following. ............
elleng
(130,974 posts)'only 66% of voting age women have ready access to a photo document that will attest to proof of citizenship. This is largely because young women have not updated their documents with their married names, a circumstance that doesnt affect male voters in any significant way.'
SharonAnn
(13,776 posts)I can speak from personal experience that not changing your name means not having to do anything at all to change any paperwork or documentation or records. Plus, I can tell all you ladies out there that in twenty-five years of marriage once and only once was having a different surname a bit of a problem, but one that got resolved very quickly.
I honestly don't understand why so many women continue to change their name when they get married. Then change it back when they get divorced. Then change it again when they get married again. And so on. I recall some years back the staunchest defender of changing her last name was a woman embarking on her fourth marriage.
freshwest
(53,661 posts)Lizzie Poppet
(10,164 posts)These shitstains are suborning democracy and usurping political power. Why are they not hanging from the nearest branch?