[image: image.png] Opening thoughts from the 19th News Voters in New Hampshire are contending with a strict new voter ID law requiring new voters to show proof of citizenship at the polls — a policy that is impacting, among others, women who have changed their names due to marriage. The law requires first-time voters to show proof of citizenship such as a passport, birth certificate or naturalization documents in addition to proof of residency every time they vote. Brooke Yonge told New Hampshire Public Radio (NHPR) she had to make two extra trips to the polls to vote on Tuesday in Derry, New Hampshire — to get her birth certificate and then to get her marriage certificate to show she’d changed her name. Another woman, Betsy Spencer, came prepared to register and vote in Hopkinton with several documents. But she too was initially denied because she didn’t have her married name, which she kept after her divorce, on her birth certificate. “The idea that women have to prove their name change is profoundly sexist and limiting,” she told NHPR. Eventually, Spencer was able to vote using an expired passport, but the ordeal took hours. “I should be back working, but the truth was, I could not let this go,” Spencer told NHPR. “This is not ok.” The New Hampshire law, which is in effect pending court challenges, is the latest and strictest iteration of Republican-backed laws targeting unlawful non-citizen voting, which is already prohibited and extremely rare. Laws in Arizona and Kansas that sought to require voters to provide proof of citizenship to register to vote were blocked in court. Republicans in Congress are aiming to pass the SAVE Act, a bill that would require voters nationwide to provide proof of citizenship when registering or re-registering to vote. An estimated 21.3 million Americans, 9 percent of Americans of voting age, don’t have documents proving their citizenship readily available. rethink the week: talkers: *Stephen Pimpare *is Professor of Public Policy at Vermont Law and Graduate School. *Lincoln Mitchell* teaches political science and public policy at Columbia University. *Adam Finkel *is a Clinical Professor of Environmental Health Sciences(Adjunct) at the University of Michigan School of Public Health, and is also an expert witness specializing in plaintiffs’ exposure to toxicants in the workplace and general environment. *topics:* Trump’s Stagflation Who’s Deportable Now? When anti-war protesters are called national security threats <responsiblestatecraft.org/free-speech-khalil-green-card/> Columbia expels some students Schumer says he will vote to advance GOP spending bill, lowering threat of shutdown – Listen online at www.wnhnfm.org/live. Listen anytime to the podcast at www.podomatic.com/podcasts/staff74238 <www.podomatic.com/podcasts/staff74238> podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/attitude-with-arnie-arnesen/id1634055179 tunein.com/podcasts/News–Politics-Podcasts/Attitude-with-Arnie- <tunein.com/podcasts/News–Politics-Podcasts/Attitude-with-Arnie-Arnesen-p1711842/> Arnesen-p1711842/ <tunein.com/podcasts/News–Politics-Podcasts/Attitude-with-Arnie-Arnesen-p1711842/> Attitude with Arnie Arnesen,voting, NH, Adam Finkel,Stephen Pimpare, Lincoln Mitchell, Stagflation, Deportation, Schumer, Anti-War protestors, Columbia