Save Act Implications

Hello lawyers and thank you for what you do.

The SAVE ACT has passed through the House and there's little reason to believe it won't also pass through the Senate. Once passed, married women who took their husband's last name will have significantly more challenges registering to vote because one of the provisions of this ACT require that the name on the birth certificate must match the identification presented to voting authorities in order to be properly vetted.

I am one of those women. I'm madly in love with my spouse but am considering petitioning my state to restore my last name to my birth name while remaining married to my spouse. I'm in Kentucky if this matters.

My questions are this: What are the negative implications I'm not considering in doing it this way? Do you have to have certain prequalified reasons to undertake such a name change request that might be disqualified in Kentucky? If so, could I divorce my spouse, take my birth name, remarry my spouse and not take his name to get around this?

I have zero intention of carrying all my papers everywhere like it's 1930s Germany and too many women died for my right to vote to let them just take it.

What SHOULD we do here?