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I have nothing to back this up but it feels like this would hurt conservative women more than Democratic women? Like it feel more conservative to change to the husband's name, and liberal women usually keep theirs, no?
Not to mention like unmarried women are probably more common in the liberal side? Right?
I suspect its more about creating extra paperwork hurdles to voting. More paperwork means it takes more time investment to be able to vote at all, thereby disenfranchising voters with less free time and Republicans have already done the math on that and enacted voter ID laws in many states because the math works out for them
Oh that makes sense I guess. It reads like states don't have to do this? Or is that just odd working, is it required? Are blue states actually following through on these things? I know California did their own gerrymandering to fight back right?
So American elections are fucking weird. Every state holds its own elections and can set their own laws and processes for how elections are held. This is part of why Iowa has caucuses, some states require party registration where you can only vote within your registered party, who can vote absentee and how etc.
Republicans have been pushing hard in the last 20 years or so to push voter ID laws as a method of voter disenfranchisement. Voter ID laws require every voter to have a valid state or federal ID with their current address. Since there's no universal ID provided by the federal government this is typically handled by the DMV (even for IDs which are not drivers licenses) which republicans have also been slashing funding for, so if you moved at the end of your 12 month lease, you now can't vote until you visit your local DMV on one of the 2 weekdays a month that they're open, pay processing fees for the privilege of updating your ID just so you can vote in an election where most of the candidates are running unopposed and you can't get any info on anyone in the nonpartisan local elections because the only local newspaper is paywalled and didn't bother to do any election coverage anyways once you've either paid up or found a way to bypass the paywall
Since elections are held by the states they've had to perform this push on a state by state basis, but they've had big donors behind them pushing at the local level and upwards for quite a while. It's a wonderful confluence of factors which have brought us to this point but it's not hard at all to see where the wealthy have put their fingers on the scales to gain more control