not one dime of tax money should ever be used for parties funding, never, even the per vote subsidy we have at the feds is horrible policy, NO one can ever claim at any time they know what peoples level of support is not even a day after an election! thus money being dished out per vote is a scam that does not represent people. if a party can not raise its fund from people directly then it is proof they have no support and cant manage to run and get elected! such is the only reality in the funding process we need