How would public funding of political campaigns work with approval voting?
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With ranked voting it's easy - just take the top choice of every voter and use that for the amount of funding each candidates' party receives for the next election.
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@matija If public funding is proportional to votes, then I'd say it's easier with approval voting than ranks. With ranks, you could use top votes as you say, but then you might give less funding to the election winner (by IRV, Condorcet or whatever).
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@toby-pereira the problem I see with approval is that political parties could split to get more funding.
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@matija True. If individual ballot data can be used, then the funding that results from each could be split equally across the candidates approved on that ballot. But this still might not be very satisfactory.