There is no election department at the White House, and no federal agency runs U.S. elections, not even the federal ones. It's built into the Constitution's separation of powers: states administer elections. That structural fact also shapes voter eligibility for Americans who've never lived in the U.S., their right to vote comes through a citizen parent's last state of residence, and which state you're tied to as an overseas voter comes down to where you last actually resided.
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