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  2. Publicly funded elections - Wikipedia

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    A publicly funded election is an election funded with money collected through income tax donations or taxes as opposed to private or corporate funded campaigns. It is a policy initially instituted after Nixon for candidates to opt into publicly funded presidential campaigns via optional donations from tax returns.

  3. Campaign finance in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Nor did either Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton accept federal funding for the 2016 general election. [120] Public funding was formerly available to finance the major parties' (and eligible minor parties') presidential nominating conventions. In 2012, each major party was entitled to $18.2 million in public funds for their conventions.

  4. Party subsidies - Wikipedia

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    Party subsidies or public funding of political parties are subsidies paid by the government directly to a political party to fund some or all of its political activities. Most democracies (in one way or the other) provide cash grants (state aid) from taxpayers' money, the general revenue fund, for party activity.

  5. Campaign finance reform in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Wisconsin and Minnesota have had partial public funding since the 1970s, but the systems have largely fallen into disuse. A clause in the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002 ("McCain–Feingold") required the nonpartisan General Accounting Office to conduct a study of clean elections programs in Arizona and Maine. The report, issued in May ...

  6. Presidential election campaign fund checkoff - Wikipedia

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    A new party candidate receives partial public funding after the election if the candidate receives 5 percent or more of the vote. The entitlement is based on the ratio of the new party candidate's popular vote in the current election to the average popular vote of the two major party candidates in the election.

  7. Campaign finance - Wikipedia

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    In many countries, such as Germany and the United States, campaigns can be funded by a combination of private and public money. In the United States, public financing systems include democracy vouchers, [11] matching funds, and lump sum grants, among other system types. Governments, international organizations and scholars are concerned about ...

  8. Political party funding - Wikipedia

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    Funding may be equal for all parties or dependent upon the results of previous elections [8] or the number of candidates participating in an election. [9] Frequently, parties rely on a mix of private and public funding and are required to disclose their finances to an election management body .

  9. Fundraising in the 2024 United States presidential election

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    Under United States law, officially declared candidates are required to file campaign finance details with the Federal Elections Commission (FEC) at the end of every calendar month or quarter. Summaries of these reports are made available to the public shortly thereafter, revealing the relative financial situations of all the campaigns.