I'd argue because there are lots of ways around such prohibitions. What's considered political speech or campaigning? Is me advocating on HN for a change in Con

I'd argue because there are lots of ways around such prohibitions. What's considered political speech or campaigning? Is me advocating on HN for a change in Congressional rules considered a campaign? What if I were paid for it? (I'm not, just strongly believe in it). I think it becomes really nebulous to track and define what is considered campaigning or electioneering, and it would be much much easier to just have members of Congress vote using an Aristotle dual urn voting machine [0]. I think the root cause is not political donations but being able to track whether those political donations have the intended effect. I imagine very very few lobbyists would give cash if they couldn't make sure the strings were attached just as they wanted them to be. [0]: https://congressionalresearch.org/SecretBallot.html https://congressionalresearch.org/SecretBallot.html