User:MountVic127/RCV Election Financing

RCV Election Financing

The basic cost of running elections in most counties such as America and Australia is spent by the state.

Additional donated funds are raised by partisan interests.

Are any donated funds spent on for say non-partisan purposes?

for example for Disability Access such as:

Ramps rather than stairs at polling booth entrances;
Seats so that voters do not have to stand for hours waiting in queues;
Guards to protect polling boxes from sabotage such as with fire;
Public Transport to operate to weekday timetable even though Voting Day on Tuesday eclared a public holiday.
School Holiday on Voting Day allows yellow school buses to feed polling places often located at schools.
AFAIK, bipartisan boards supervising can allocate donated funds to worthy causes as listed above.
Some state(s) forbid such amenities as "Election Sausages" because they claim Hot-Dogs to be a form of "Treating" which is considered to be bribery :-(
Probably read in "The Economist";
In Australia, the non-partisan Electoral Commission is gradually making polling booths wheelchair compatible, probably by paying halls and things to install ramps, etc.
Election Hot Dogs are allowed and are run by charities.
IIRC it may have been in California where local Councils wouldn't install wheelchair ramps at kerbside; so the agitators took matters into their own hands and installed them themselves, using picks, shovels and concrete. :-) :-)
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To pay for these improvements let there be a tax on PAC, and Super PACs.

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To honour Abraham Lincoln who in 1863 chose the 1435mm gauge for the Pacific Railroad, let the tax be a multiple of 14.35% such as 28.70% or 43.05%

This project may be called Project 1435 to distinguish it from Trump's Project 2025

-) :-)

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Note that 1435mm gauge is the most common and standard gauge used by about 62$ and growing proportion of the world railways.

Amongst other things (in 2024) this gauge is in use or will soon be use in capital cities such as:

Returning Officers to report the proportion of constituents who actually voted.