> What about completely anonymous donations? If the receiver doesn't know who is giving the money, how could it act as a bribe?
It would be pretty hard to set things up so that donations were not only anonymous, but non-verifiable (as in, it should be impossible for a donor to prove to a recipient that they were the one who donated). This attribute in voting systems is part of 'coercion resistance' (as in, if you can't prove how you voted even when you want to, there is no point in trying to coerce you into voting a particular way). In a payments system, we can call it 'corruption resistance'.
I can’t think of anything in the public interest that shouldn’t be publicly funded. I would go so far as to say that’s the only class of thing that should be publicly funded. Did you have something in mind?
Re: completely anonymous donations, you mean, like Bitcoin? Generally any legitimate business has to report where it’s money came from - even if just for tax purposes - otherwise it’s a whole new crime. Remember, under my model, all contributions would be banned. Then, candidates would have to compete on platforms instead of fundraising.
That doesn't really follow. Why should something be exclusively publicly funded just because it is in the public interest?
>All other contributions (including in-kind) to political campaigns are tantamount to bribery and should just be illegal.
What about completely anonymous donations? If the receiver doesn't know who is giving the money, how could it act as a bribe?