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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), 81 Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), 90 President Joe Biden, 80 Former President Donald Trump, 77

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[โ€“] Strayce@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Australia sort of has a system like this. You have to have the money to campaign up front, but you can claim back a percentage based on how much of the vote you get. In practice it just means we end up with a ton of minor and single issue parties doing preference deals and trading favours in the senate.

[โ€“] kent_eh@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

Australia sort of has a system like this. You have to have the money to campaign up front, but you can claim back a percentage based on how much of the vote you get

Canada did as well for a few years. Then a conservative government got elected and cancelled it.