Voter registration gone wrong

I was reading this story about a voter registration group telling its workers they would be fired if they brought back any registration cards from democrats and suddenly something struck me. Isn't this kind of corruption exactly the reason why your vote is supposed to be secret?

Just what kind of dumb ass system does this country have where someone who collects your registration card is able to guess, more or less how you are going to vote? Sure you might decline to state your preference, you might change your mind and vote for another party's presidential candidate, or you could deliberately register for the other party either to help select a lame duck candidate, or just to avoid fraudulent registration workers from shredding your card. But again, why on earth should a voter registration form give any indication whatsoever as to which party they are aligned? To require or even allow voters to express this when registering to vote is just plain and simply dumb.

Its high time that the respective parties manage their own party membership and primary elections in complete isolation from the other elections. The voter registration form should be purged of all voter preference information - this includes ethnicity too. In Florida you are requested to fill your ethnicity - that makes it real easy for Jeb Bush and Co, to shred all the non-caucasian forms and ditch a group that's historically 90% democratic party voters.

Its none of the country's business how a part selects its candidates. With voter registration forms purged of any party allegiance preference it will be impossible for such heinous election frauds from taking place unless someone willingly expresses their voting intention to the registration worker. Really the country itself should be making a greater effort to register people to vote in the first place, everyone should have been sent a voter registration form that is sent to a single location and the processing of which is handled by a bi-partisan non-corporation organization. Furthermore everyone should easilly be able to confirm their registration status with a simple phone call, or online check.