What difference did it even make? Why didn't they just say, here's your new president Kamala hand picked by Xi, and you can't do anything about it.
I mean they couldn't have made the fraud more obvious. We all know there's fraud. The courts know there's fraud. The military knows there's fraud and they do nothing.
I don't think anyone would do anything anyway if they skipped the election bullshit, because this couldn't be more obvious.
So why go through all the pretending and play acting?
To give you the illusion that you had an election.
I don't think any form of election reform can fix this. Even if we pick a candidate they don't like and since now they know we wont really revolt they'll just install whomever they want as long as they keep us content enough.