> In a one-person-one-vote system, buying the votes of individuals requires mass fraud to have an impact.
More specifically, even if you do go to the trouble of outright buying people's votes, since secret ballots are generally considered the way to go (though they haven't always been, even relatively recently), it's extraordinarily difficult to have confidence in the value of your 'purchase' because you have no way of knowing if the person you paid off did it.
In this system, the scaling may make it a lot easier to identify that a person followed your directions and spent a particular amount on the vote...
More specifically, even if you do go to the trouble of outright buying people's votes, since secret ballots are generally considered the way to go (though they haven't always been, even relatively recently), it's extraordinarily difficult to have confidence in the value of your 'purchase' because you have no way of knowing if the person you paid off did it.
In this system, the scaling may make it a lot easier to identify that a person followed your directions and spent a particular amount on the vote...