Does being secret not protect them from influence? If someone buys their vote, they can take payment and vote however they want? Or if they have an unpopular pe

Does being secret not protect them from influence? If someone buys their vote, they can take payment and vote however they want? Or if they have an unpopular perspective any loud minority groups of devs would oppose them and cause backlash, they won't have to worry about it. Look at systemd, if you voted against having only one init system back in the day, you would be subject to backlash or it could be understood as support for the Devuan forkers.