Save us from the SAVE act!

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Those morons in Congress went ahead and passed the SAVE Act.

I’ve told you about that stupid law in the past. It makes it damn near impossible for certain groups of people to vote because it requires you to have a copy of your birth certificate and your legal name has to match the name on your birth certificate.

It’s based on a law that was passed in Kansas a few years ago. That law resulted in mass chaos – tens of thousands of eligible voters were denied the right to vote. It was eventually found to be unconstitutional and the entire shitshow was dumped in the garbage can.

People who don’t have access to their birth certificates, people who were born in other countries or came from war zones, people here who born at hospitals that have since closed and they just can’t find their records – they wouldn’t be able to register to vote.

And women, who have gotten married and assumed their husband’s surname – they wouldn’t be able to vote either because their name no longer matches the name that’s on their birth certificate.

Why would the Republicans want to deny these people access to the ballot?

Because they tend to vote Democratic.

But this time the Republicans appear to have shot themselves in the foot, and here’s why:

It IS true that in general, women tend to vote for more Democrats than Republicans. But married women tend to vote for more Republicans than Democrats. I don’t know if that’s because they’re trying to please their idiot husbands, or if just being around men makes them stupid. But they do tend to vote for more Republicans than Democrats. And by making it more difficult for married women to vote, the Republicans in the House of Representatives have denied themselves access to a significant constituency.

You guys didn’t really think this one through, did you?

It doesn’t really matter because the Senate will never pass it, and even if the Senate passes it and Trump signs it into law, some judge will rule it unconstitutional.

We’ve just got to rediscover that dumb wheel time and time again.

This is why they teach history in school!

About the author:

Del Stone Jr. is a professional fiction writer. He is known primarily for his work in the contemporary dark fiction field, but has also published science fiction and contemporary fantasy. Stone’s stories, poetry and scripts have appeared in publications such as Amazing Stories, Eldritch Tales, and Bantam-Spectra’s Full Spectrum. His short fiction has been published in The Year’s Best Horror Stories XXII; Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine; the Pocket Books anthology More Phobias; the Barnes & Noble anthologies 100 Wicked Little Witch Stories, Horrors! 365 Scary Stories, and 100 Astounding Little Alien Stories; the HWA anthology Psychos; and other short fiction venues, like Blood Muse, Live Without a Net, Zombiesque and Sex Macabre. Stone’s comic book debut was in the Clive Barker series of books, Hellraiser, published by Marvel/Epic and reprinted in The Best of Hellraiser anthology. He has also published stories in Penthouse Comix, and worked with artist Dave Dorman on many projects, including the illustrated novella “Roadkill,” a short story for the Andrew Vachss anthology Underground from Dark Horse, an ashcan titled “December” for Hero Illustrated, and several of Dorman’s Wasted Lands novellas and comics, such as Rail from Image and “The Uninvited.” Stone’s novel, Dead Heat, won the 1996 International Horror Guild’s award for best first novel and was a runner-up for the Bram Stoker Award. Stone has also been a finalist for the IHG award for short fiction, the British Fantasy Award for best novella, and a semifinalist for the Nebula and Writers of the Future awards. His stories have appeared in anthologies that have won the Bram Stoker Award and the World Fantasy Award. Two of his works were optioned for film, the novella “Black Tide” and short story “Crisis Line.”

Stone recently retired after a 41-year career in journalism. He won numerous awards for his work, and in 1986 was named Florida’s best columnist in his circulation division by the Florida Society of Newspaper Editors. In 2001 he received an honorable mention from the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association for his essay “When Freedom of Speech Ends” and in 2003 he was voted Best of the Best in the category of columnists by Emerald Coast Magazine. He participated in book signings and awareness campaigns, and was a guest on local television and radio programs.

As an addendum, Stone is single, kills tomatoes and morning glories with ruthless efficiency, once tied the stem of a cocktail cherry in a knot with his tongue, and carries a permanent scar on his chest after having been shot with a paintball gun. He’s in his 60s as of this writing but doesn’t look a day over 94.

Contact Del at [email protected]. He is also on Facebook, twitter, Pinterest, tumblr, TikTok, and Instagram. Visit his website at delstonejr.com .