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Registering to vote is a weird American thing that needs to go away.
Thing is, the government doesn't know where you are. You get a social security number when you're born, and the hospital provides a birth certificate, and everything else is voluntary. You can get a driver's license, establish credit with a bank, but if you just leave your house and go to some other state, you don't really have to tell anyone.
Living in one place entitles you to vote for local politicians, and registering to vote prevents you from voting more than once.
I understand that. Buts it’s a weird American aberration born out of your worrying frontier fetishism. Having a functioning central public administration would solve *a lot * of your problems.
Y’all need records, yo.
Or just be less paranoid. You have to register to vote in Canada, but you can do it automatically when filing your taxes, or at the polls with your government ID, OR at the polls with a piece of mail and an already registered voter to vouch for you. They just write your name and address down to forward to the federal or provincial elections agency, nave your voucher sign a form, and then give you a ballot.
Yeah but this Canadian method absolutely reeks of wanting people to vote.