How do you tell if they're representing you well? You see if the bills they said they'd introduce got introduced. You see what they brought back for funding. You judge them on the job they're doing, like we do now.

When you cut their job security (you don't allow corporations to funnel billions of dollars into elections with most of it being untraceable), then the only motivation a politican has is to do his job because come election time he won't have the millions of dollars to run a fancy campaign and make false promises, he will have a strict voting record for all to see.

How do you get A and B to happen at the same time? Secret ballots cut the balls off of lobbyists, what do you suggest we do to replicate that effect? You can't both get rid of vote buying and keep open ballots. One comes with the other. The second we introduced transparency in congress we started blowing up lobbying.

I mean, what you just said in the above quote is literally my argument aside from that last line. I'm not sure how you magically get rid of vote buying when everybody can see how you vote. Even if you managed to reduce campaign contributions through legislation, you could secretly be selling votes under the table.