“Secondly, you can use a birth certificate, but any person who has changed their name as a result of a marriage … has to find not only their birth certificate but some correction of it to prove that they are eligible to register to vote. “It’s estimated that 9 percent of the voters in America do not have the identification required by this bill. Durbin is correctly pointing out that the SAVE Act seems designed to make it harder to vote—particularly for lower-income Americans and married women who change their names—rather than to tackle voter fraud, which is practically nonexistent anyway.
Author: Edith Olmsted
Published at: 2026-03-13 14:11:06
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