> If this turned out to be roadblock then lobbyists would lobby for a new act that overturned this law. It would get a freedom-sounding name like Openness Of In

> If this turned out to be roadblock then lobbyists would lobby for a new act that overturned this law. It would get a freedom-sounding name like Openness Of Information For a Free America God Bless You Act. Yes I agree they'd try. > But how would they lobby for that...? you ask. It would go marginally slower because of this temporary roadblock. You seem certain it would happen anyway. Maybe an analogy: would you prefer that the votes of private citizens were public info? That everyone would know, with certainty, how their neighbor voted? I imagine lobbyists would love certainty over this information. Yes they try their best to guess it with all the voter info they buy and glean from data firms, yet don't have certainty over it. So why haven't they been able to get public citizen voting records? It actually used to be this way and apparently it could get quite violent, in terms of how people would intimidate each other into voting certain ways[0]. I'm not saying that lobbyists wouldn't find a way to still influence the votes, I just think it would likely be a lot harder than you imagine it would be. [0]: https://congressionalresearch.org/SecretBallot.html https://congressionalresearch.org/SecretBallot.html