NOT by voting yes on the “SAVE Act.” This act might do exactly what MAGA wants this year. Prohibit up to 69 million (yes, million) women from voting.
The first thing we have to do at all costs is make sure that voting is controlled by the states, not the federal government. The Constitution determines that the States have control of elections. The courts have indicated strongly that POTUS, by design, has absolutely no role in federal elections. Now, Trump has other ideas. He’s demanding voter rolls from Democratically-controlled states, and is expected to use masked ICE agents at polling sites and demand access to voting machines. He also controls the US Postal Service so could do something to block ballots. He also had a judge from Missouri allow the FBI, under the aegis of the Director of National Intelligence, NOT in her actual job description, to break into the secure area where Fulton County AL has all the 2020 presidential election records and remove them. A lawsuit has been filed to get them back. This federal interference in our most cherished democratic right is not in America’s best interests.
As to the SAVE Act, only half of Americans have a passport. Any woman who took her husband’s name after marriage may no longer be able to vote. When I married I took my husband’s name and it was a real pain to do so (banking, everything) but I was assured that I didn’t have to go to court to legally change my name. I was advised that my marriage certificate would be enough, but it may not be. Many married women do not have their marriage certificate or their birth certificate. One without the other doesn’t work because if her name has changed, the birth certificate will be different than on her current “real ID” drivers license.
Along with trying to send America’s working women back to the kitchen, many extreme MAGA folks believe that the husband should have the vote and the wife should depend on him to make the decision as to who will lead our country. Excuse me? I love my husband dearly but I have a brain and we don’t agree on everything. I make my voting decisions. Always have, always will.
Contact your Congressman(woman) and Senators, please! Read up on the SAVE Act and find out how it will disenfranchise American voters. Yours in solidarity, Citizen Dee
Cooking with Dee 