&gt; How on earth is stuff like that legal?<p>There&#x27;s even weirder stuff: more than half of the states allow people to declare their party affiliation when registering to vote anonymously. Some of them use those declarations to limit access to the primary elections and I&#x27;m sure they are very useful in the gerrymandering phase.<p>It&#x27;s really the lowest possible form of democracy. The next step is the single party system.