Not necessarily. Any party that receives 5% of the national popular vote gains access to government funding to the tune of like $100M+. Dems and Repubs don’t use it as there are some caveats to how you manage your campaign finances of you use it and it’s a drop in the bucket compared to what they normally use. Depending on where you live, this could be a much easier to stomach option than the two evils. Consider states like California or Wyoming. A Republican isn’t winning president in California nor a Democrat in Wyoming. So Republicans in California could vote third party and Dems in Wyoming could do the same. If they get that 5% threshold, they get new funding.
I can’t find this 5% requirement. According to the FEC, the Electorial college, Ballotopedia, and Yale you need a minimum of 5000 dollars raised in at least 20 states to register a party who can access the public funding of 20mil + COLA, roughly 84 mil in 2020.
Not necessarily. Any party that receives 5% of the national popular vote gains access to government funding to the tune of like $100M+. Dems and Repubs don’t use it as there are some caveats to how you manage your campaign finances of you use it and it’s a drop in the bucket compared to what they normally use. Depending on where you live, this could be a much easier to stomach option than the two evils. Consider states like California or Wyoming. A Republican isn’t winning president in California nor a Democrat in Wyoming. So Republicans in California could vote third party and Dems in Wyoming could do the same. If they get that 5% threshold, they get new funding.
I can’t find this 5% requirement. According to the FEC, the Electorial college, Ballotopedia, and Yale you need a minimum of 5000 dollars raised in at least 20 states to register a party who can access the public funding of 20mil + COLA, roughly 84 mil in 2020.
That was for primary elections. Further down the page is general elections. The grant was worth about $103.7M in 2020.
https://www.fec.gov/introduction-campaign-finance/understanding-ways-support-federal-candidates/presidential-elections/public-funding-presidential-elections/
Hey thank you. I have been reading up on all of this stuff surrounding making, promoting, and running a party.