To the editor:<\/p>\n
I am a resident\u00a0of Lee County\u00a0and I am writing regarding\u00a0HR22.\u00a0While election integrity is important, I am concerned that\u00a0having birth certificate requirements, name change\u00a0proof and expanded voter\u00a0challenges could intentionally\u00a0prevent eligible voters from registering or remaining on the rolls and not being allowed to vote.<\/p>\n
Legislators, please ensure that any election legislation\u00a0protects both security\u00a0and access for eligible\u00a0voters, including safeguards to prevent wrongful\u00a0removals or administrative\u00a0delays.<\/p>\n
Approximately 69 million women have had their name changed through marriage.<\/p>\n
Does your paperwork match exactly your current ID?<\/p>\n
Do you have your\u00a0birth certificate?<\/p>\n
Does your citizenship paperwork\u00a0match exactly your current ID?<\/p>\n
How many times have you been married and had a name change?<\/p>\n
Do you have the paperwork?<\/p>\n
I have\u00a0work\u00a0to do!<\/p>\n
My name and\u00a0birth certificate do not match my records in my life, I must contact the courts in the county I was raised in. My name was changed when I was 7 years old,\u00a0 I called the county\u00a0courthouse\u00a0in which\u00a0I lived. My court\u00a0 records are in the historical\u00a0archives for the state and my costs\u00a0 are $35 and the processing\u00a0fee is 6-8 weeks.\u00a0 I need the probate court papers.<\/p>\n
I have the money and the time to get my records, but what\u00a0about the people\u00a0who don\u2019t know about these changes?<\/p>\n
I need to find my marriage\u00a0license, my birth certificate, and court\u00a0decisions.<\/p>\n
I need to put together my name change profile for voting .\u00a0<\/p>\n
Check your voting status now!<\/p>\n
Make sure you\u2019re registered to vote in the primaries, special elections and general elections. <\/p>\n
Vote, Vote, Vote.<\/p>\n
Kathleen Callard<\/p>\n
North\u00a0Fort Myers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"To the editor: I am a resident\u00a0of Lee County\u00a0and I am writing regarding\u00a0HR22.\u00a0While election integrity is important, I…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":125179,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210],"class_list":["post-172599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172599\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}