Dear Americans:

Your basic electoral process is f**ked up:

SUSAN FILAN: Yeah, it’s a real problem, Tamron, though, because your constitutional right to vote in this country is one of your most sacred and fundamental rights. We’re a democracy, that means that the people who govern, who lead us, are elected by us. If our ability to vote and to choose is interfered with, our democracy is at stake.

And what’s happened here in this California charge is that this person supposedly, allegedly, because he’s innocent until proven guilty, told people they were signing a petition but that they had to become a Republican to do it, and switch their parties in some cases. In other cases, he didn’t even tell them that he was in fact switching their party. They thought they were signing a petition, and their party got switched. What’s going to happen to them on voting day when they go to register as their Democratic vote that they thought they were registering, they’re not going to be on the right poll. They’re not going to get to vote.

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Here's an idea you dumb American politicians: how about you scrap the stupid party registration involvement in the voting process. Every programmer knows that hard-coded values come back to bite you in the ass sooner or later, and this is a perfect example.

If voters were registered simply as voters, this fraud would not be a problem at the voting booth. You idiots.

It boggles the mind that after the numerous reports of voter fraud and confusion in the past two presidential elections that someone hasn't come out and said "ENOUGH! We're standardizing everything into a clear and concise manner so our election doesn't resemble some third world banana republic!"

Look to the Canadian model. It works like a charm.

Idiots. There is no excuse for it.