The ability to vote someone in and out every N years is not nearly sufficient to ensure that the constituents' interests are represented. What is really needed,

The ability to vote someone in and out every N years is not nearly sufficient to ensure that the constituents' interests are represented. What is really needed, in my opinion, are the following: * The ability for the constituency to override important votes if thresholds are met * The capacity to initiate a vote of no confidence in an elected official at any time, and for such an action to take effect immediately should it pass, establishing new candidates and elections for the position * Public financing of all campaigns, with free and open access to all media channels required by law, as a duty such companies must shoulder in exchange for the privilege of operating their businesses within the United States * Declaring that money is property, not speech. Lobbying must be performed by no more than one degree of separation from the original sponsor, and utilizing chains of shell companies and organizations to mask the source of lobbying becomes a criminal offense with a mandatory prison sentence for every link in the chain * EDIT (forgot this one): Requiring all public data --laws, emails, chat logs, sanitation test results, etc, etc-- be digitally available over the internet and accessible to everyone with a free and open API as well as simple web portal * Legal teeth built into election law that establishes the following for all elections at all levels: +++ A none-of-the-above candidate. Should it take majority, all candidates that lost to it are barred from the next election, which takes place N weeks later with new candidates +++ Implement an Instant Runoff voting scheme +++ Implement a Mixed-Member Proportional Representation districting scheme. But... that's just me. I think the mechanics of how we do "democratic-republic constitutional federalism" is more important than any particular issue.