Edit/Update: It turns out that my last name has a capitol letter in the middle and they put a space in it. Thank god. I can actually vote this year.

  • chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    2 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 as an automatic bonus if you check a box saying you want it

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      2 months ago

      Some states have lifetime DL terms, while others are still ridiculously long.

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        2 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.

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      2 months ago

      That’s true but I’m just explaining the potential problem.