People elect politicans not companies. It people that have the votes. Not companies, not lobby groups people. So get out there and give these elected officials a proformance review. If they fail fire them.
Arranger, your words are admirable, but you either don't live in the USA or you've had your head in the ground like an ostrich for the past 2 decades, particularly the last one. Politicians AND parties are finding all kinds of ways to circumvent the power of the people .... maybe you haven't been watching the news or keeping current on all the voter suppression, gerrymandering, foreign influence and huge amounts of CASH being paid to sway voting, legislation, etc. Heck, the Koch Brothers alone have spent a
BILLION or more the last 2 general elections, and millions on mid-terms. Check out what's going on in many of the conservative states where they're eliminating hundreds of thousands of registered voters, where they've eliminated party-line voting, same-day registration, cut down on polling locations and times, etc.... all of them being done by conservative states. Particularly check out Oklahoma, Kansas, and NC. If the power of the people's voice was that important, we wouldn't need electoral voting anymore and the popular votes would represent the voice of the people. Hasn't done that in a while.
As far as voting, my wife & I voted 2 weeks ago in our state.
In Dodge City, Kansas they cut the polling locations down to ONE and moved it miles outside of the city to make it totally inconvenient for people to vote. If you can't find that story, let me know, I'll find it for you .... lots of news media carrying it.