How many governmental entities do you pass through on your daily commute to work? I mean counties, cities, towns, villages, parishes, state lines, country borders, etc.
For instance, my commute takes me through the towns of Rotterdam and Niskayuna and the city of Schenectady in Schenectady County, and the town of Colonie in Albany County.
How about you?
One. My daily commute is entirely within the city limits. If we decided to go shopping after work, however, then we’re likely to pass through two other cities and maybe another county.
Currently, none. I live and work on campus and my commute is a thirty-second walk from my dorm to the library.
I worked in a different state than I lived for a while, and if I tally up the cities I passed through and the authorities govern the two bridges I crossed (one each way), there were nine different ‘authorities’. I could feasibly add another, as I worked for a huge federal office and I’m pretty certain they owned the land of that office complex, so I’ll go ahead and say ten. And if I didn’t pay attention on my way home and missed the first bridge I wanted, I’d go through another city as well. This was all within about fifteen miles - gotta love the beehive of the northeast corridor.
In the place I currently live (for another 14-16 hours or so, at least :D):
The township I live in
Youngstown City
Not sure if Mahoning County counts or not.
In the place that I’m moving to, as far as I can tell, it’s just the city - I’ll be about 1.5 miles from work.
If I actually go into the office, I pass through three municipalities; the City of Burlington, the Town of Oakville, and the City of Mississauga.
However, since most of my days are spent going to customer sites, I can pass through dozens of jurisdictions. I once drove from Mississauga to Madison, Wisconsin, travelling through a province and four states and scores of counties and municipalities, just to get to one place for one day. On another occasion I did a four-day, four-stop business trip that took me through the states of Michigan, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio, Pennsylvania and New York, plus the province of Ontario, all by car. (I worked in Grand Rapids, Chicago, Indianapolis, and Louisville and you have to pass thru OH, PA and NY to get home from Louisville.) Kind of trumps your ordinary commute.
My commute lies entirely within the realm of my Kingdom. In other words the fourth door on the left from my bedroom.
Quite a few.
Counties: Dallas, Denton, Tarrant.
Cities: Dallas, Irving, Grapevine, Southlake, Keller, Fort Worth.
States: Texas
I don’t commute, but I’m curious if the OP is limited to cities, counties, and states, because there are vast numbers of political boundaries all over the place:
School Districts
Utility Districts
Fire Districts
Park Districts
City Council Distircts
County Supervisorial Districts
Flood Control Districts
Redevelopment Disctricts
Historic Preservation Districts
Mosquito Abatement Districts
Judicial Districts
State Legislative Districts
Etc. Etc. Etc.
My typical day takes me:
Depending on exactly what I’m doing that day, I may drive or metro through any number of hundreds of other city and county limits in MD or VA within the DC beltway.
4 or 5 cities/towns spread across 2 counties & (I think) some unincoprorated county land in each county.
My commute is entirely inside Tokyo, but I do pass through Arakawa, Taito, Chiyoda and Chuo Wards.
From my home in hamilton, to work in Burlington, and back. 
Within London, I get on the tube in the City of Westminster, get off in the City of London, and walk to my office, which is just outside the City in the Borough of Islington.
I live in the country so my primary political border is a county. So my work commute takes me into town in the same county, across the state line into a different county and a different town by the same name.
So now the detectives among you have access to enough information to figure out about where I live…
Last year I had a one-day-a-week teaching gig at Southeast Missouri State in Cape Girardeau, which is about 100 miles south of St. Louis. I have no idea how many towns and cities I drove through, but it was a lot. I drove through five counties.
Boulder County -> Jefferson County
Boulder -> Eldorado Springs -> Arvada (sometimes also Westminster and/or Broomfield, depending on how I go)
Boulder Fire -> Rocky Mountain Fire Authority -> Coal Creek Fire District -> Fairmount Fire District -> Arvada Fire District
All covered by the ambulance company I work for.
I stay with in the city of Columbia for the whole two miles.