The SAVE Act passed the House on Feb. 11, 2026 by a vote of 218-213 and is now in the Senate awaiting a vote. Voting is expected to take place next week, according to Thune. If and when it passes the Senate, it will go to the president for a final signature.
Will SAVE Act Prevent Married Women from Registering to Vote?
Posted on February 28, 2025
Q: Is it true that under the SAVE Act married women will not be able to register to vote if their married name doesn’t match their birth certificate?
A: The proposed SAVE Act instructs states to establish a process for people whose legal name doesn’t match their birth certificate to provide additional documents. But voting rights advocates say that married women and others who have changed their names may face difficulty when registering because of the ambiguity in the bill over what documents may be accepted.
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?