It could hurt your score in a few ways. First, it could reduce your Credit Age sonce it was such an old card and Credit Age is an average age. Average age is a medium impact factor so it is pretty important. Second, it reduces your over all available credit which means your Usage Percentage could be higher. Usage Percentage is high impact, but you can mitigate this impact by paying your cards off before their due date. Finally Total accounts is a low impact factor but by closing a card you are reducing your total account number so that might effect it. Overall if you keep your Usage Percentage it should not have too huge of an effect on your score unless it was your oldest card.

In the US it is common for women to legally change their their last name to their Husband’s last name when they get married. Having eligibility to vote tied to your name matching your name at birth would make these women unable to vote.