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GBU_28@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

Imagine 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)

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chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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

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- kent_eh@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Not every adult has a driver’s licence.
  
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  - chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.
    
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- ech@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  Some states have lifetime DL terms, while others are still ridiculously long.
  
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- GBU_28@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  That’s true but I’m just explaining the potential problem.
  
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skullgiver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
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- GBU_28@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  As I said, federal government doesn’t handle this. So the IRS is involved for several reasons.
  
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