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- know how your congressman votes on each of the vote If anyone from Facebook is reading, this would be a great feature for the site. Imagine following your r

• gingerbread-man 10y ago
  It would make a great plugin for national news sites, though their internal software teams could build this feature pretty quickly themselves.
• Gargoyle 10y ago
  The real value add here would be an explanation of each piece of legislation. Merely knowing the aye or nay vote isn't very useful without understanding what the resolution is actually doing, and it's usually not obvious to the untrained reader.
• jsymolon 10y ago
  > know how your congressman votes on each of the vote Actually, the opposite may be a better way. Our representatives votes should be secret for the same reason that the people votes is secret: prevents the voter from being intimidated and from selling his/her vote.
  • mthoms 10y ago
    Interesting thought. You know, you could also just make it illegal to "sell" votes in the way the United States currently allows? Most other Western/Democratic countries figured this out a long, long time ago.
    • daveguy 10y ago
      No need to make it illegal. Votes can't be sold because they can't be confirmed (it's anonymous). That's not what they are talking about here. They are talking about representative votes and yes, it is illegal to buy/sell congressional votes. It is also not private, just like every other Western/Democratic representative government.
  • panic 10y ago
    It's a completely different situation. Their job is to represent the people who elected them. How would you know your representative actually represents you without knowing how they vote?