I'm trying to post the meme again.

[applegrove]

Tried to get my real ID. I had my license, my SS card and my birth certificate.

I was not allowed to get my real ID because my birth name is different than my married name. Now I have to go dig up a marriage certificate. You know who wouldn’t have to do this? A man.

Never change your last name.

— Jess Piper (@piperformissouri.bsky.social) 2025-09-22T17:36:55.123Z

Trans people too change their names and need ID for elections I would bet.

[Skittles]

1. anyone who gives up their identity would have to do this

yup

[PXR-5]

2. As far as I know,

You don't need real ID if you have a passport. It's just the TSA that says you need it or a passport to fly.

[Ms. Toad]

3. But you might need it to vote.

In some places, passports are not acceptable identification for voting. (Ohio changed recently to allow it - but a passport was not previously allowed as voting ID.)

[FullySupportDems]

5. I think Real ID is also needed for entering Federal buildings

I don't remember if passports will work.

[FullySupportDems]

4. So true

My first marriage license wasn't even good enough, because it didn't have a raised seal. The signatures on the original document didn't mean a thing. Cost over $100 to order the two marriage licenses and one divorce decree for my Real ID.

Don't change your name when u get married.

[central scrutinizer]

6. My wife changed her name to her mother's maiden name when we married

Her immigrant father had changed his name to a more “American” last name so that was the name on her birth certificate. Her mother was also an immigrant. She was proud of her ethnic heritage and didn’t want a vanilla last name. There was paperwork involved but she did it. We passed that name along to our daughter and she has my last name as a middle name.

[applegrove]

7. Cool. Love it when the ancestors are included in family names.

[Luciferous]

8. I kept my maiden name since I'm the

last one in the family to carry it, really glad I kept it.

[sinkingfeeling]

9. I've had my married name for 58 years. Been divorced for 55 years. I had to remember where

we got the marriage license and order an official copy for filing for my Costa Rican residency. I was amazed they still had it.

[popsdenver]

10. Now there is something

the Dems can be doing.......Alert them to this problem and tell them to get their papers in order so they don't get turned away at the voting place...
AND remind them constantly......

[slightlv]

11. took me literal months to get my RealID

because my marriage certificate had a white out blotch on it. Had to pay to get a new copy (which is a generated copy, complete with white out that couldn't be seen because of the copy paper matching). Which is what I brought up to them at the DMV when they told me what I'd have to do!!!

Thank god I kept at least part of the divorce decree from my first husband. I'd still be trying to get documentation if I hadn't packratted that crap.

Agree with you. Women NEVER change your name! I wish I'd had an inkling about any of this when I first got married back in the "old days"... hell, just live together. You don't HAVE to get married! Easier that way.... 2nd hubby and I never even wore rings. We just celebrated out 36 anniversary together yesterday. And rings are still not important. And that piece of paper is only important to authoritarian govert types. /rant off

[Tree Lady]

12. I used my passport to show my current name

To get real ID.