Name change and voting

Honestly it just seems too risky to me, I would wait until after voting to change your name.

With Covid I know things may be backed up a little. I would try to schedule your appointments now? Maybe that would speed up the process. Otherwise I would wait

View Quoted Comment From what I know there aren’t any appointments needed. Everything in my county has gone back to walk in

View Quoted Comment That’s kinda what I was thinking. Just start everything after November 3rd. I need to see if there’s a rule on how long I can wait to change my name on my SSC. I know after I change that I have 60 days to tell the DMV.
My mom said I should call the election office because they’d be able to tell me exactly what to do. My moms voter registration still pops up as her divorced name instead of her current married name, 20 years later 🤦🏼‍♀️ But she’s still able to vote because I believe here they match your licenses number to your voter registration number

View Quoted Comment Actually I was wrong, I have to tell the dvm within 60 days of the marriage. So no later then December 3rd

View Quoted Comment But do you wanna risk them being crowded?

Someone I know who works for SSA advised to wait until things reopen. They said it’s so backed up on their end and you have to mail your actual Driver’s License in with the application.

What would you do for driving and if you were to get pulled over in the interim? They couldn’t answer that 😂

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View Quoted Comment The office in my county is open and we can go in to show everything. No need to mail in my drivers license from what I can tell

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Oh you’re lucky! Yeah things are currently closed here, although they are in the works of setting plans to reopen. Just not sure when that will happen.

View Quoted Comment I will definitely call them after we get married to make sure they are still open! Though part of me is just think to wait till November to change it legally but change it socially right after the wedding

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That makes sense! I had a friend who got married and lives in the same state as us and she waited a while to change her name and didn’t have any issues, so I’m okay with waiting until things are safely reopened.

View Quoted Comment Everywhere you have to go to get your name changed (social security, DMV, etc). I think making an appointment would be much more convenient if you want to get it done before voting. That’s just my opinion though.

View Quoted Comment The only thing that worries me is the DMV says that they must be notified of the name change within 60 days of the wedding. But (from what I understand) you can’t notify them without your SS card being changed. Unless it means 60 days after you change your name on your SS card

View Quoted Comment Oh yea. I’ll make an appointment with the dvm at least. I don’t know how our SSI office works but I will definitely call them after the wedding to set up an appointment. I don’t want to set up an appointment quite yet because I’d rather wait till I have my marriage certificate in my hand instead of risking it not being ready before the appointment

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I would definitely double-check on that.

View Quoted Comment Yes definitely. I hope it all works out for you!

I would probably wait. If you participated in early voting, you could change it shortly afterwards and I don’t think it would cause any issues.

As far as how long it takes to actually change your name... the day I went to the SSA office, they gave me paperwork stating it was official. My new card came in the mail about a week later. I went to the DMV once I received my new card. So, it is a pretty quick, and easy, process. However, changing your voters registration might not be that quick.

View Quoted Comment I believe they change it at the dmv since that’s where I originally registered to vote. I am going to call the voting polls to see what they say about the name change.
I’m glad to know it shouldn’t take to long!

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You know, not that you said that, I do remember them asking me if I wanted to update my voters registration while I was at the DMV! So that being said, I had everything change over within 2 weeks.