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halobeam

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11. I'm married for the 2nd time.

Reply to Lonestarblue (Original post)

Mon Feb 2, 2026, 11:20 AM

Feb 2

To get a real ID, I needed birth certificate, both marriage licenses, and the divorce document. It had to show a legal transfer of birth name to current license. It takes a year or longer in my state, to get a certified copy of a marriage license (with raised seal). Anyone who needs to get that now, wouldn't be able to vote, come midterms.

You need these documents for both RealID, and Passport. So if you have either, I wonder why women would need to carry around the documents, since you needed them to get these in the first place?

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This one weird trick could stop US women from voting [View all] Lonestarblue Feb 1 OP

The Repukes would never do this, because they would lose more voters than the Dems would FakeNoose Feb 1 #1

Not necessarily. It's for new registrations and re-registrations. Lonestarblue Feb 1 #3

Not for in-person voting in districts rule by Rs RandomNumbers Feb 1 #6

This is a good point - a lot of the Dem election board officials have been chased away FakeNoose Feb 1 #7

Becoming a poll watcher at least RandomNumbers Feb 1 #9

So do they mean we all have to carry our birth certificates and our marriage licenses with us? viva la Feb 1 #2

The name you were born with might have changed, and that's what they're looking at FakeNoose Feb 1 #4

I got married in 1973, in Chicago. Talitha Feb 1 #5

I think i just had to inform social security viva la Feb 2 #10

Pro marriage party strikes again lame54 Feb 1 #8

I'm married for the 2nd time. halobeam Feb 2 #11

I never changed my last name when I married. I never had to do any of this.No doubt the travelingthrulife Feb 2 #14

Strange thing Rebl2 Feb 2 #12

I keep reminding the young women I know that voting was a 'right' hard fought travelingthrulife Feb 2 #13

I have been married twice. Neither of the women I married MineralMan Feb 2 #15