Yeah, NY has "fusion voting" which means candidates can run on as many ballot lines and be endorsed by as many parties as they want. Want to run on a line with a gimmicky name? Just gotta collect the petitions and you can!
the short of it is that fast-track totalitarian overhauls tend to backfire monkeypaw style
Mao's "great leap forward" probably led to more human death and suffering than any other single event in history