Because they think they can suppress voter turnout among women (boldface mine):

It took three trips, but Brooke Yonge was finally able to cast her ballot.

On her first trip to the Derry polls Tuesday morning, Yonge didn’t bring proof of her U.S. citizenship, a requirement under New Hampshire’s new voter identification law. So she drove home to grab her birth certificate, and then tried to vote a second time.

But there was another problem.

“It doesn’t have my married name on it,” she said. Town voting officials then sent her away a second time, to get her marriage certificate.

“It is what it is,” said Yonge, walking back to her car yet again.

Tuesday’s town elections saw the first widespread application of New Hampshire’s new Republican-backed voting law. The new rules are considered some of the strictest in the country: No longer can would-be voters sign an affidavit if they don’t bring certain identification documents with them to the polls. Now, all new voters in the state must have paperwork in hand proving they are U.S. citizens — including a birth certificate, passport or naturalization papers — as well as showing that they meet residency requirements.

Both at the state level, as well as at the national level with the SAVE Act, Republicans are calling for strict voter id, and this will make it harder for women to vote (up to 69 million women have changed their name). And this will hit older women the hardest, and they favor Democrats, not Republicans (it’s GenX women who are far to the right, relative to other female cohorts).

Schumer can’t let this thing pass, though I think this could be the case where Republicans blow up the filibuster; they’ll just claim they are defending democracy and so on.

Happy Monday.