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Basically it changes the types of id that are accepted at voting booths.

When you vote you already have to have registered with appropriate ID to be counted federally. When you show up at the poll this act will change so that only federally issued ID types will be valid. Birth certificates are the most common but if your current name is different than what you were born with for any reason it won't count.

Of these federal id types most of them are opt in varieties and as such are actually more expensive types of specific ID like passports and "REAL ID". A regular old drivers licence as issued by your state won't be good enough anymore even though your name and listed address were verified by the state and already match the name on the voter registration.

Since these id types are more expensive it can make voting the preserve of those who can afford the time and extra money making it a way to disenfranchise economically disadvantaged voters of all stripes .

Proof of citizenship is already required to register, bringing proof to the voting booth is the extra hurdle this act brings.

Watch them try to tie it to the 15th or some dumb bullshit.

Hell, they just need it in place long enough to bork a single election, right? All it takes is a slow judicial and they can achieve the goal.

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

They want all conservative women to change back to their maiden name apparently lol.

Can't speak for the entirety of the West ofc but here in the UK It's traditionally the norm that the woman takes the man's surname; but it's definitely become less common in the last 50 years or so.

It's not uncommon to see double-barrelled names; which are both surnames added together (IE: Mr Smith marrying Miss Jones could become the Smith-Jones') or as you say, retaining their family surname post marriage.

Same sex tend to go down the double barrel or retention routes from what I've experienced. I've met same sex couples where one elected to take the others name, but I'd be surprised if it was the most popular option in SSM, primarily because of where I believe this tradition stems from.

My theory is that the less theocratical a country is, the less prominent this situation is. Religion eh. Helluva drug.

Not the same in all western countries. Afaik it was tradition in most countries for the wife to take the husband's surname, except in Italy and Spain. Regular people also often didn't have surnames, instead they were "son of ..." or named after their or their parents' occupation. Edit with more musings: surnames could also be their place of birth, their farm, ... Names which would then get made hereditary in the early 19th century, but many people still kept using the old changing forms for generations longer. During his life, my great grandfather wasn't known by his official surname in his village, only the state called him that.

In the last few decades, most western countries (afaik again) are allowing the woman to chose if see wants to change her surname or not. Or to use both surnames. They also allow the man to change his name to that of his wife. Equality.

And that recent development is also why it's not a problem for same sex marriage. Back when the wife had to take the husband's name, same sex marriage wasn't allowed so there was no naming problem. Countries that allow official same sex marriages are typically also countries that will already have equality for surnames.