To the editor:

Like 80% of women who marry, you probably changed your last name when you married. If so, that means the name on your driver’s license is different than the name on your birth certificate. Under the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act, if you don’t have a passport and you want to vote, you’ll have to show your birth certificate and name-proving documents — like your marriage certificate. If you have married more than once, you’ll be required to show documents linking your name-changes over time — the marriage certificate from your first marriage, the divorce decree, and the marriage certificate from your second marriage. And if you don’t have those name-proving documents on hand, getting that documentation will cost you time and money.

The stated purpose of the SAVE Act sounds reasonable — to prohibit noncitizens from voting. However, evidence of noncitizens voting is statistically nonexistent. Yet here we are — Republicans are pushing the SAVE Act in the name of voter fraud, while millions of women will be stripped of their right to vote in the upcoming November election because they lack name-proving documents.

The House passed the SAVE Act (shame on you Rep. Tracey Mann), so now the bill heads to the Senate for consideration. Call Sen. Jerry Moran (202) 224-6521 and Sen. Roger Marshall (202) 224-4774 and ask them to vote NO. If the SAVE Act passes, millions of married and divorced women will lose their right to vote this November.

Amii Castle,

Lawrence