I just found out that in the US if you shift states you have to register for voting again.
Um, I'm not totally positive, but I believe if you change where you live, period, you have to register again...
Spin theory (and this might not be true for all areas, but in some) you can live in the same street and same voting district and have to reregister to vote with an updated house location.
That's so bonkers, that information should be transferred shouldn't it? Or go to some sort of portal and check mark the state you're going to be residing in.
Absolutely not... states don't trust their own state with handling the information, so why are you going to trust another state?
And different states have different laws and requirements... to register to vote.
Registering to vote, when switching states makes sense, as the requirements can be totally different... when it's the same exact voting district, it makes less sense to me though.
I really grapple with the realisation that the US is more a collection of countries than one whole country
Yes and no...
If just looking at the laws and law books, yeah you can absolutely make that claim.
