I received a pair of phone calls on behalf of one of the major-party candidates encouraging me to vote on Tuesday at my former polling place in Millcreek Township.

Never mind that I’ve lived in Maryland for more than two years and voted here as recently as this year’s primary.

If I were to show up at the First Alliance Church tomorrow, it looks like I would easily be able to cast a ballot in Pennsylvania.

And since Pennsylvania is a much more hotly contested state than Maryland, there could actually be motivation to do so (if I was only up for that 6-hour drive).

This leads me to ask the question — do the parties work from lists of registered current voters when they make their robo-calls?

If I am, indeed, registered to vote in two states, I have to believe that this is not uncommon.

A possible solution? Make the voter registration database national — rather than having it done on the state level. Issue each voter a bar code and make sure that code can only be scanned in the voter’s true home district.