[miki123211]

Public voting data isn't always a good thing.

On one hand, it makes representatives accountable to the public, which is good. On the other, it heavily encourages voting among party lines, and makes lobbying a lot easier (as the lobbyists know whether the representatives voted the way the lobbyists wanted). This effectively moves the heart of government from the representatives themselves to lobbyists and high-level party officials.

It's a bad idea in the same way letting you photograph your ballot and upload it to social media is a bad idea; there's a reason most democracies disallow that.

[HardlyCognizant]

That just means the forms of lobbying being permitted are antithetical to democracy, and is just bribery in a different form. The problem is with the lobbying, not the accountability.

[vanviegen]

The public ballots are what makes the bribery possible. It also prevents representatives from voting for what they believe is right, due to internal pressure from their party or from broader society. Just look at US congress: it's hard to be believe that all Republican members want to support tearing down democracy. Yet they do.