<p>Not to venture into the political threads teritory, but we just got a recorded call targeted to D1. Who last voted in this state in 2000. Who has been registered and voted in 3 other states since then.<br>
Similar stats for son. And yet, every time we go to vote, there are those slacker kids of mine on the rolls and not voting! At what point do most jurisdictions remove you?
Every time I have moved, I have assumed that registering in a new place took care of my previous registrations…</p>
<p>You do expect a lot out of government, don’t you, DM! I seriously doubt that any one state follows through to another state when a new voter registers. That does bring up the question of how long it takes before deadwood is removed from the voting rolls.</p>
<p>Yes, I probably was expecting too much - that by filling out my previous address on the new registration card the new state would somehow communicate that to the previous place.</p>
<p>That would require state 2 to actually have a program to notify state 1. Requiring money from both place 1 and place 2…</p>
<p>So I couldn’t vote in place 1, 2 or even place 3 or 4 absentee.</p>
<p>Wow, so much to contemplate…</p>
<p>In my town, we get a yearly census form. If we don’t return it, we’re put in “inactive” status on the rolls. For the primary this year, the town never received my census form (although I had sent it in), and I had to have the inactive status removed by showing my current driver’s license. I don’t know how long one can be “inactive” before one is formally removed, but it does make it harder to vote in multiple places.</p>
<p>This is posted on our County’s election services page :</p>
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<p>My understanding is when you register to vote in a new place they put your name onthe NCOA and you are removed from the rolls at your previous address. Perhaps an old address was not listed OR it just takes a while.
Election offices are very wary of purging voters from the rolls these days.</p>
<p>Same thing with jury duty. DH received a summons for jury duty in NJ 2 years after he moved to a new state, registered to vote and got a drivers license in the new state. His previous address was his parents’ house, so they received the jury summons and forwarded it to him. DH had to send in copies of his new drivers license and some other paperwork to prove he no longer lived in NJ. </p>
<p>On the other hand… a friend told me when they moved to their new house, with a new phone number, the very first phone call they received was from their alma mater, asking for a donation! He said he wasn’t sure the phone installer had even pulled out of the driveway and there was the college on the line with the new number, asking for money! lol</p>