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26. It may have slipped by them.

Or it may be a case of selective enforcement, which is harder to prove and harder to deal with. The DMV website is just vague enough that it looks like it could be a selective enforcement issue.

It would be useful if there was some corroboration besides three single paragraph accounts over a year old on a site only slightly more reliable than YouTube comments. (Even reddit didn't produce anything, and reddit has a thread on almost everything.) We need someone in FL who a) has access to her own records, b) has been married and divorced and changed her name at least once, c) is coming up for renewal and has 2-3 months' lead time, d) has spare time she doesn't mind spending at the DMV to do this twice or three times, and e) has access to a digital voice recorder she can keep in a pocket and f) is willing to go in the first time with just the minimum required documents that men need. I'd totally do it, but I'm not in Florida, and still have the name that's on my birth certificate.

However... Here's NOW's twitter: @NationalNOW. It's worth pointing them at the thread with something eye catching like

FL denying women necessary voter ID

(I can attest that if Colorado tried something similar, I would not notice until someone else pinged me, because I a) was too lazy to stand in line/make calls to/write letters to DMV/SS/Credit bureaus/credit card companies/everywhere and b) remain firmly convinced that after several decades with one name and title, there was no reason whatsoever to change either. I continued to use Miss or Ms (I've always used them interchangeably) until I became Doctor. If this was a procedural change, it actually would be easy to miss.)