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?
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.