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The goal is to make it so self-declared private organizations can't be an official part of the election process. At the moment, the state holds primaries for political parties, and helps them keep track of who's in which one which helps maintain the duopoly.
I'm sympathetic to the concept, but I think that the advantages that organized parties have in terms of coordination (e.g. people with broadly similar values and policy goals choosing one candidate to represent those goals to avoid splitting the vote and seeing someone antithetical to those shared goals elected) are sufficiently strong that you would just see the current primaries replaced immediately by a primary process run completely independent of government oversight and resources. I can't imagine that being good from a perspective of electoral legitimacy or reducing the influence of money in politics.
Assume for a second we're using a cardinal voting system, and not using something outdated and barbaric like first past the post.