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I am curious how this will work with public campaign financing for third parties. Third parties who achieve 5% of the national vote are eligible for public cam
by antognini 6y ago
I am curious how this will work with public campaign financing for third parties. Third parties who achieve 5% of the national vote are eligible for public campaign financing in the subsequent election. But would this be 5% of the first round votes? Or 5% of the final round votes?
Maine uses IRV, so the first round votes will probably make sense for the purposes of qualifying for public campaign financing. But if it were a Condorcet-style system you could have strange outcomes where a candidate wins the election, but has less than 5% of 1st place votes and therefore doesn't qualify for public campaign financing.
- jacques_chester 6y agoIn Australia it's based on the percentage of first preferences.