I don't agree that voter registration is unrelated to political parties. There are two points to campaigning: convince people to vote for your candidate, and then get the people who support you registered and to the polls. Voter registration is very important to our democracy (clearly), and I believe it only serves us better in the long run that we have political parties pushing so hard for it. Without the Democrats and Republicans, I'm fairly confident we'd have much lower voter registration and turnout.

Check out p-values. "p" in this case is not a regular probability. The equality is in the correct direction.

After reading that, I was left with the feeling that I had no idea what I had read it for. Was it a call to arms? Was it a rant about our whole world? It seemed to offer more problems than solutions...