(WASHINGTON, D.C.) - Even as a House rollcall produced Party-line passage of the Republicans’ version of Jim Crow 3.0 - the Save Act 2.0 - Progressives, the National AFL-CIO, the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) and the Congressional Black Caucus were moving to kill it and save voting rights for millions nationwide before the GOP can trash those rights in advance of this Fall’s election.

It would require anyone seeking to register to vote to not only present positive proof of identification that they’re a U.S. citizen - such as a driver’s license, its equivalent, or a passport - but the proof must be identical in name to the name the person used when first registering.

And if they don’t have such proofs, they must go to extraordinary lengths to get them or be barred from voting at all.

And in cases of older voters, especially older Voters of Color, such proofs - like birth certificates - are unavailable.

Women whose last names changed after marriage would be another group particularly hard hit.

And half of the U.S. people don’t have passports - which are not cheap and take a long time to procure from the State Department. 

The result is that analysts project anywhere between 20 million and 71 million people nationwide would lose the right to vote.

Most of them would be Working Class, poor, Minority and Women voters, the majority of whom have trended Democratic for several decades.

Women, in particular, may have originally registered and never changed their registration, from their “maiden” last name to their current last name, whatever it is. 

Under the Save Act, people who miss elections for one reason or another would be automatically purged from voting rolls, which would hit Voters of Color more heavily. 

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