Sen. Gillibrand has unveiled a plan to give every voter up to $600 in what she calls 'Democracy Dollars' that they can donate to federal candidates for office.
"It will change who has a seat at the table and who gets elected in this country within one election cycle," Gillibrand said.
Gillibrand's plan is modeled on a similar program in Seattle, which implemented a $25 voucher system for local elections in 2017 after voters passed it through a ballot initiative., but not without some success. Small donors surged from 8,200 in 2015 to 25,000 in 2017, according to a report by the campaign finance advocacy group Every Voice, and the contributors tended to be younger and more diverse than traditional donors.
"Gillibrand's plan is the most ambitious adoption of the idea that I think we've seen so far," Lawrence Lessig, a Harvard law professor and former presidential candidate who has advocated for the voucher concept, told NBC News.
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