So I heard a good response to why the Republicans will want the Save Act to fail.

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31. My R sister married and divorced three times.....she moved back to her state of birth

after becoming disabled with a terminal disease. 2009 so even then you needed a photo ID to vote and travel by plane. I gathered up her divorce papers, birth certificate and every document posted on the SOS Website and headed out to the DMV. She was wheelchair bound so getting around in a car was a big job. After waiting 45 minutes at the DMV we were called to the counter. Her social security number was entered into the system and lo and behold that number was associated with another name. Yes, her maiden name from the driver license issued when she was 17. Of course I only had access to her most recent divorce papers, current drivers license and passport. Ten states away, two additional marriage certificates and two sets of divorce papers was not going to be an easy get! Even though she was backed into a corner my other sister who was with us leaned over and whispered to her that she may have to marry our cousin Billy to get her name back. Of course we burst out laughing.(when we told Billy about this later he was all in and thought it was at least a solution that would get sister an ID to vote) I was busy scooping up papers trying to leave nothing behind when a man who had been waiting and watching the shenanigans of the clerk for what seemed like forever came up to us and said, ‘I don’t know what the problem you ladies are having is but I have to say that you have the best senses of humor I have ever seen. We thanked him as it took some of the sting out of the whole debacle. We left and headed home.

You may ask how I got the whole thing worked out and why would I care knowing my sister was going to cancel out my vote. Everyone deserves their right to vote. And what I did involved using privilege to solve the problem and I’m not proud of it. Technically we had every document necessary as the website list did not state all divorce proceedings back to the point of maiden name were necessary. The next DMV I went to was headed by someone who knew me. She could see that technically I did have the papers that were asked for. She could see that my sister was in a world of hurt and processed the State ID for us. So many women will lose their their right to vote and travel about if they implement the birth certificate name matching the ID 30, 40,50 years down the road. It is complete insanity. For the most part this will affect females. I guess it’s time to stop changing names for whatever reason.