The only reason our legislators pander to the will of the corporations is because the corporations provide them with the funds that allow them to win elections. The corporations are able to check the effectivity of them buying votes yes, but that still doesn't make their votes any less valuable. They don't even have the desire to vote on legislation that concerns their constituents because their constituents would never even find out if they voted one way or another. To be honest in some cases it would probably be easier to sell their vote because there is no fear that their vote will be used as a weapon against them in future elections.

What I was referring to though is the common man. How do elections work? What do we have to compare each candidate to? If one says one thing how are we to believe they will actually do that? Are we suppose to have faith in people who prior to the secret ballot did most of their voting based on which corporation could provide them with the most job security next election? Most politicians as it is now only care about keep their job, and I just don't think that enacting a secret ballot would make them follow the straight and narrow all of sudden.

When you cut their job security (you don't allow corporations to funnel billions of dollars into elections with most of it being untraceable), then the only motivation a politican has is to do his job because come election time he won't have the millions of dollars to run a fancy campaign and make false promises, he will have a strict voting record for all to see.