A Crucial Flaw in Democracy & A Five Dollar Solution
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TL;DR (Taken from Reddit):
Require secret ballots in congressional committees and on the floor.
Reforms in the 1970s introduced open voting, and James traces the rise in corruption to those reforms.
The idea is that open votes give financial backers, lobbyists, and party leaders a lever to coerce members. Secret congressional ballots would eliminate this lever.
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