We have something like this in Australia. Candidates receive a fixed amount, maybe $2.50, per first preference vote, provided that they achieve more than 4% of all votes.
The 4% requirement avoids creating an incentive for every idiot to register a political party so they can get a few hundred dollars from the Electoral Commission.
The effect is to essentially tie what you proposed into the election itself.
We do still have private donations, but I think they’re somewhat restrictive, and the public funding lessens the benefit of private donations.
HerbalGamer@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
…thats pretty much an election in itself.
KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 1 week ago
Kind of, except that if you throw your funds at a grassroots candidate, you’re helping to give them the ability to convince other people to vote for them in the actual election, and you could choose to (for example) give all of your funding to that grassroots candidate but still vote strategically in the general.