Nationally-organized minor parties, which are traditionally under-funded, nevertheless sometimes have enough funding to provide a significant boost to a single nominee, or a handful of nominees, for important office. But such parties then have a problem deciding in an objective manner which of their many nominees to support.

Alex Snitker has written this proposal for his party, the Libertarian Party. It involves an internal national party vote, by rank-and-file members, to decide which three Libertarian U.S. House nominees should get the party’s full financial help. All voters would qualify by donating $25 to the fund that would ultimately go to the chosen nominees. Alex Snitker was the Libertarian Party’s U.S. Senate nominee in Florida in 2010. He now acknowledges that U.S. Senate campaigns are too expensive, and he limits his proposal to U.S. House races.

The idea might face an obstacle from the part of the McCain-Feingold law that limits how much money national political parties can donate to their own nominees, although these limits do not apply if the spending is not coordinated with the nominees.