You don’t actually have to register your party affiliation and I didn’t for many years, but if you want to vote in the primary for the candidate you want to run then you have to register. It does open the process to out right fraud and manipulation and there has to be a better way. That the government has the rolls of party affiliations is unsettling, but most don’t keep their votes a closely guarded secret any way, even those manipulating the system and registering against their real affiliation announce the fact and are proud of themselves. It would be pretty hard to keep affiliations a secret in this day and age any way. You can even accurately discern someones voting preferences by what news programs they watch. Someone with their TV tuned exclusively, or mostly, to Fox news is a republican. Fox news is not carrying the Jan. 6 riot investigation, going so far as to not even break for commercials for fear that someone might be tempted to switch channels and see footage of Trump supporters storming the capitol and beating police, or the text from their anchors urging Trump to call them off when publicly these anchors insist Trump had nothing to do with it.
What I’d really like to see fixed is that damned electroral college that allowed Trump to be president when the majority of americans didn’t vote for him in the first place. It’s also vulnerable to manipulation and was targeted by Trump to keep him in power. I think it came closer than most people want to admit to corrupting the election and we might not be so lucky next time.
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