If Birth Certificates are Needed as Proof of Citizenship to Vote:

[Chasstev365]

Blue States need to provide every 18 year old and above a legal copy of their birth certificate. How would this be best accomplished?

Mail to state eligible voters? (Problematic)
Have them available to be picked up at every state's city/town hall?

We have to start getting creative!

[Blaukraut]

1. What about naturalized citizens?

Their birth certificates don't prove US citizenship. Do they have to bring their naturalization certificate or US passport?

[Chasstev365]

3. Good Point. I'm just thinking on how we can help people to vote.

[31j20b3]

2. I no longer live in a state that holds my vital records

I have multiple copies of mine. Moving around the US requires registering to vote, and you gotta have those things.

I think it's important for Dems who don't have one to get a certified copy of their birth certificate ASAP

If possible women who have changed their surnames need to get those changes linked to their birth certificate (however that's done).

My partner goes by her first husbands name as that's what's on her transcripts that certify she has a PhD. She's worried but not doing anything about it...

[dalton99a]

4. From Trump's "SAVE America Act":

Documentary proof of United States citizenship.—As used in this Act, the term ‘documentary proof of United States citizenship’ means, with respect to an applicant for voter registration, any of the following:

“(1) A form of identification issued consistent with the requirements of the REAL ID Act of 2005 that indicates the applicant is a citizen of the United States.

“(2) A valid United States passport.

“(3) The applicant's official United States military identification card, together with a United States military record of service showing that the applicant's place of birth was in the United States.

“(4) A valid government-issued photo identification card issued by a Federal, State or Tribal government showing that the applicant’s place of birth was in the United States.

“(5) A valid government-issued photo identification card issued by a Federal, State or Tribal government other than an identification described in paragraphs (1) through (4), but only if presented together with one or more of the following:

“(A) A certified birth certificate issued by a State, a unit of local government in a State, or a Tribal government which—

“(i) was issued by the State, unit of local government, or Tribal government in which the applicant was born;

“(ii) was filed with the office responsible for keeping vital records in the State;

“(iii) includes the full name, date of birth, and place of birth of the applicant;

“(iv) lists the full names of one or both of the parents of the applicant;

“(v) has the signature of an individual who is authorized to sign birth certificates on behalf of the State, unit of local government, or Tribal government in which the applicant was born;

“(vi) includes the date that the certificate was filed with the office responsible for keeping vital records in the State; and

“(vii) has the seal of the State, unit of local government, or Tribal government that issued the birth certificate.

“(B) An extract from a United States hospital Record of Birth created at the time of the applicant's birth which indicates that the applicant’s place of birth was in the United States.

“(C) A final adoption decree showing the applicant’s name and that the applicant’s place of birth was in the United States.

“(D) A Consular Report of Birth Abroad of a citizen of the United States or a certification of the applicant’s Report of Birth of a United States citizen issued by the Secretary of State.

“(E) A Naturalization Certificate or Certificate of Citizenship issued by the Secretary of Homeland Security or any other document or method of proof of United States citizenship issued by the Federal government pursuant to the Immigration and Nationality Act.

“(F) An American Indian Card issued by the Department of Homeland Security with the classification ‘KIC’.”.

https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/7296/text

[sinkingfeeling]

5. I have a certifid copy of my birth certificate in my MAIDEN name, so it won't match my voter registration.

[RubyRose]

8. Most women would have that problem.

[MichMan]

10. Isn't a marriage license sufficient?

My mother passed away a few months ago at the age of 92. She had copies of marriage licenses for all three times she was married, including to my dad when she was 17.

[RubyRose]

11. You would think so.

[MustLoveBeagles]

9. Same

[pat_k]

6. I have no idea. I have to go to court to get a legal name change.

My mother applied for SS cards for my sister and I in my step-father's name, enrolled us in school, etc. He never legally adopted us.

Basically, the name I've been know as since I was four f-ing years old does not match my birth certificate

Long story on why this has not yet been remedied, but I know I am far from alone.

An affidavit under penalty of perjury was sufficient for decades. Common law name name change by usage has been lawful and sufficient for decades.

This bullshit is bullshit. It was bad enough after 911. Now it's gotten absurd.

And what the fuck about people born under Jim Crow when they were denied access to hospitals?

[Dan]

7. I probably would say lets not fall into this trap of the Trump/GOP.

States regulate their own elections. This SAVE act stuff is about disenfranchising minorities, old and poor people, people without paperwork and women.

The old joke used to acknowledge the southern way of disenfranchising voters:
Question to a WM - what was the greatest maritime disaster of all time?
Question to a WF - How many people died on the Titanic?
Question to a BP - Name them.