The nine-member Public Finance Commission is close to completing its work.

The commission is set to vote Monday on the remaining outstanding issues for crafting a system of publicly-funded campaigns statewide. As of now, the plan is to only match small donations that individual New York State Senate and Assembly candidates raise in district.

That would be a departure from the New York City system, which allows matches on donations from anyone who lives in the city.

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"Yeah, we think that that can work if you have low contribution limits, and you are only matching contributions up to $250, not the first part of a large contribution, and if there is independent enforcement," said Reinvent Albany Executive Director John Kaehny.

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But the issue that has dominated much of the debate focuses on whether to keep or end the practice of fusion voting. Fusion voting allows minor parties like the Working Families Party, or WFP, on the left, and the Conservative Party on the right, to cross-endorse Democrats and Republicans who are on the ballot.

In an interview on New York NOW on WMHT, Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins says she'd like fusion voting left alone.

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"Personally, I would prefer that it be a separate conversation if there was going to be a conversation at all," Stewart-Cousins said.

The majority leader's sentiments were echoed in a tweet by U.S. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer.

"The Public Financing Commission should focus on the worthy goal of reducing BIG money in politics, not ending fusion voting and the Working Families Party," the New York senator said.

Critics say the push to reexamine fusion voting has come at the direction of people close to Gov. Andrew Cuomo, including the head of the state Democratic Party.

"I want people to focus on the Trumpian behavior that's happening right now by our governor," Public Advocate Jumaane Williams said. "The governor laid out a plan of getting rid of the Working Families Party. He's executed it by putting some kind of fake public finance systemin place."

Supporters of fusion say Cuomo wants to eliminate it to punish the Working Families Party, which endorsed his opponent, Cynthia Nixon, in the Democratic primary for governor last year, a charge the governor denies.

Even if the commission leaves fusion as is, it is still expected to change the vote threshold parties would need to remain viable third parties with ballot position. That move could eliminate the WFP.