Fiery_penguin_of_doom wrote...
Legendary_Dollci wrote...
I heard that you need certain amount of money to be able to run in a campaign.. is that true?
To my knowledge, there is no monetary requirement to run for office. It is more of the minimum amount of money required to pay staff, travel expenses, and etc.
All a pittance compared to the real cost of running for anything: advertisement. Radio/TV time is ridiculously expensive and are the means of getting your word out, making the people acknowledge you as a public figure.
This is going to sound Marxist, but mandating that all media has to assign a portion of their prime time to election advertisements - free of charge! - could go a long way to lower the costs. How get time-slot gets divided is the tricky question though that I have no ready recipe for.