Didnt they do the same thing in Canada?
They spent several billion dollars on the software for the registration system.
It ended up not working because nobody would cooperate with the gub'mnt.
There were a number of "extensions of time" and all that sort of nonsense. Eventually with a Tory win (their version of the Democrat party, there being no Republicans in that country), they kind of gave up the ghost on the registration idea.
I don't think it's completely dead but the government isn't spending any more money on it.
I imagine it'd be far worse in this country. Just find out where the computer techs live who are setting it up....... and you know the rest of the story.
A national registration system could be easily disabled in this country by very few people simply by making it an unpopular working environment.