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GBU_28@lemm.ee 3 months agoImagine you moved countries, and we’re entitled to vote in both.
You have to tell the new country you exist there.
That’s the most common failure mode in the US, when you move states or even counties and there’s a miscommunication or lack of communication between where you came from and where you are.
There are other issues, but this is the most common.
You don’t vote at a federal level, you vote at a state level, for federal stuff. (And state/local stuff)
skullgiver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl 3 months ago
GBU_28@lemm.ee 3 months ago
As I said, federal government doesn’t handle this. So the IRS is involved for several reasons.
chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 months ago
I think for most people in the US when you move you have to get a new driver’s license, and that process also lets you register to vote
kent_eh@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
Not every adult has a driver’s licence.
chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 months ago
True, and that is an issue, but I guess the main thing I’m getting at is that despite voter registration not being a unified system a majority of people moving between states aren’t going to be deterred from registering by a Kafkaesque bureaucratic labyrinth.
ech@lemm.ee 3 months ago
Some states have lifetime DL terms, while others are still ridiculously long.
GBU_28@lemm.ee 3 months ago
That’s true but I’m just explaining the potential problem.