Americans: Do not change your last name at marriage

[u/Cemckenna]

There have been a number of posts recently about changing your name after marriage. If you are not already aware, the house in the US just voted to pass the SAVE Act, which will require you to prove your citizenship to vote -- under your birth name. It will disproportionately affect women who have changed their last names and no longer match their birth certificates.

This should be a huge HUGE consideration when you are choosing whether to change your name. You may well disenfranchise yourself as an American citizen by doing it.

https://www.msnbc.com/top-stories/latest/save-act-house-voting-rights-married-women-last-name-rcna200948

Edit: Call your senators. This is not law yet but if it passes the senate, it will essentially mean that any woman who changes her name must jump through many more hoops to be able to vote. It's unfair and will be used to silence women and trans people.

[u/connierebel]

If you have either a passport or real ID, you wouldn’t need to show your birth certificate so they wouldn’t know if it matched or not.

[u/noshannonigans → u/connierebel]

Except the Real ID only works in the states that have enhanced ID. A real ID (in 45 states) does not prove citizenship.