Legacy media outlets and liberal interest groups have recently claimed that a proposal requiring proof of citizenship to vote could actually prevent married women citizens from voting.
At least two major outlets, Newsweek and the USA Today network, carried headlines in news stories—not opinion pieces—warning of such a threat to married women.
The claim is that most women who change their name when they get married don’t have a birth certificate or other kind of citizenship document with their current last name on it. So, the argument goes, requiring documented proof of citizenship would create a burden on their ability to register to vote and potentially disenfranchise them.
The claim is disputed by a number of elections experts, with one calling it “preposterous.”
Meanwhile, three liberal interest groups—the Campaign Legal Center, the Brennan…
