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I like this idea, but how do you verify that the donation would have gone to the political party? If I'm inclined to give $50 to a non-political-party charity, then there's incentive for me to claim it would go to the party I prefer in order to get one of my political opponents to divert money from the Bad Guys to another cause.
Providing there are roughly equal levels of cheating on both sides this sounds like a feature rather than a bug.
The problem is that if the potential participants expect this type of cheating, that their donations will be diverted by someone who would not have donated to their political opponents anyways, they will not want to participate.
Even if that is the case, they're still getting twice* the leverage they'd get elsewhere.
*Minus the small finder's fee.