{"id":3373,"date":"2025-03-19T23:28:46","date_gmt":"2025-03-20T06:28:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/?p=3373"},"modified":"2025-03-19T23:28:46","modified_gmt":"2025-03-20T06:28:46","slug":"a-republican-backed-bill-would-upend-voter-registration-here-are-8-things-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/2025\/03\/19\/a-republican-backed-bill-would-upend-voter-registration-here-are-8-things-to-know\/","title":{"rendered":"A Republican-backed bill would upend voter registration. Here are 8 things to know"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"edTag\">Married women who changed their names would likely face additional requirements<\/p>\n<p>Up to 69 million American women changed their names after they got married and therefore don&#8217;t have birth certificates that match their current names, according to an analysis <a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanprogress.org\/article\/the-save-act-would-disenfranchise-millions-of-citizens\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">by the progressive Center for American Progress<\/a>. These women would likely need additional documentation, such as a name change document or marriage certificate, to register to vote.<\/p>\n<p>The center&#8217;s Greta Bedekovics told NPR that would unfairly burden the women&#8217;s right to vote.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2025\/03\/12\/nx-s1-5301676\/save-act-explainer-voter-registration\">National Public Radio, Inc.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Married women who changed their names would likely face additional requirements Up to 69 million American women changed their names after they got married and therefore don&#8217;t have birth certificates that match their current names, according to an analysis by the progressive Center for American Progress. These women would likely need additional documentation, such as &#8230; <a title=\"A Republican-backed bill would upend voter registration. Here are 8 things to know\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/2025\/03\/19\/a-republican-backed-bill-would-upend-voter-registration-here-are-8-things-to-know\/\" aria-label=\"More on A Republican-backed bill would upend voter registration. Here are 8 things to know\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[422,584,603,316],"class_list":["post-3373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-dilute-womens-votes","tag-save-act","tag-voter-suppression","tag-voting-rights"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3373"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3374,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3373\/revisions\/3374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}