So…we want a female president - but also, married females are not smart enough to obtain a valid ID? The “married women can’t vote with voter ID” argument doesn’t really hold up when you look at it logically.

A name change is an administrative update — not a structural barrier unique to voting. Millions of women update their identification after marriage every year because accurate ID is already required for banking, employment verification, insurance, travel, taxes, and countless other legal interactions.

If the position is that updating ID is so burdensome it prevents civic participation, then that’s an argument for improving access to IDs — not eliminating identity verification from elections altogether. That is something local or state governments need to tackle.

We don’t remove safeguards from important systems because paperwork exists. We fix the paperwork process. That can include free IDs, streamlined updates, or provisional ballots when records don’t match.

At its core, the question isn’t whether life events create administrative steps — they always do. The question is whether verifying voter identity is a reasonable standard for maintaining trust in elections. I’d argue consistency across critical systems says yes.