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UniVote reveals where voters overwhelmingly agree on issues and policies—agreement that is deliberately ignored by the political establishment.

It then helps voters utilize their consensus as the basis for united action at the ballot box.

Pragmatic, solution-focused voters—Democrats, Republicans, and independents—constitute the majority of the electorate. Most:

Today’s highly partisan politics has drowned out the voices of these voters. “In-your-face” confrontations and shouting matches between extremists and special interests—“red” versus “blue”—dominate the political scene.

Practical, solution-focused voters are marginalized and largely ignored, despite poll after poll showing them to be a clear majority in every state in the union.

Polling also reveals that, on most issues, there are one or more policies supported by at least two-thirds and opposed by fewer than one-sixth of registered voters in America.

Check it out and you will find that large bipartisan majorities support many practical policy proposals on many pressing issues.  To name a few: Social Security & Medicare, immigration, poverty programs, jobs, housing, cost of living, the federal budget, energy & the environment, police reform, election reform, government reform, abortion & reproductive rights, gun safety, and international trade.

Why don’t we hear about these workable solutions to real concerns? Because politicians, parties, and special interests benefit by keeping this hidden, especially during elections. But the fact remains that we Americans agree on a lot of policies that would guide government to solve many of our nagging problems.

This is the unacknowledged common ground that UniVote reveals and empowers.

This website introduces a radically new way for digital technology to empower voters willing to seek solutions—to rally them with remarkable efficiency behind the issues and policies they overwhelmingly support and mobilize them to evaluate candidates in a way that diminishes the influence of special interests and extreme partisans at the ballot box.

This project is the work of ordinary citizens like you. It is led by William Spira, a retired scientist and educator, who started designing the model during the COVID-19 lockdown.

This grew into a manuscript—UniVote Town Halls: Mobilizing Common Ground Voters to Fix America’s Broken Democracy—that provides the blueprint for building a working model to pilot in 2026.

When fully operational, the web-based UniVote platform will allow large groups of Common Ground Voters to quickly and easily reach consensus on issues, policies, and candidates.

Keep in mind that, in this role, UniVote is strictly a non-partisan tool that simply reveals the collective will of the voters using it. Unlike anything seen before in politics, it does not set an agenda for voters.

The upshot is this: By spending just a few hours during an election year using the UniVote app, hundreds of thousands of pragmatic voters in a state can unite as a virtual yet influential voting bloc and help elect candidates who will be faithful to their priorities.

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Here’s how it works

Replace outdated, unstructured political organizing with highly efficient, web-based technology.

Here are the key steps in the complete UniVote process:

We are lucky that Wisconsin, our home state, is a key battleground in both national and state elections. Next year’s partisan election, with eight Congressional races plus the race for Governor, is a good opportunity to showcase the UniVote Town Hall.

Beyond being a test of the UniVote system at scale, we hope this pilot might create a stumbling block to some campaigns aiming to polarize the electorate.

Many of Wisconsin’s statewide elections are won by razor-thin margins, driven by campaigns that rely almost exclusively on cherry-picked personal attacks and one-sided, polarizing messaging.

It’s within the realm of possibility that tossing a Common Ground Agenda—even one compiled by significantly less than 100,000 voters—into the political free-for-all might change some outcomes.

Now imagine the impact that a million Common Ground Voters would have in 2028.  Possible? Yes. Polling suggests that at least 2.0-2.5 million voters among the Badger State’s approximately 4 million registered voters genuinely want to elect problem-solvers

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Here’s how it works

In future elections, 2028 and beyond, registered voters who sign up as UniVoters will be invited to participate in three rounds of virtual Town Halls during the election cycle:

The general protocol for these rounds follows these guidelines:

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Here’s how it works

UniVote reveals where voters overwhelmingly agree on issues and policies—agreement that is deliberately ignored by the political establishment.

It then helps voters utilize their consensus as the basis for united action at the ballot box.

Pragmatic, solution-focused voters—Democrats, Republicans, and independents—constitute the majority of the electorate. Most:

Today’s highly partisan politics has drowned out the voices of these voters. “In-your-face” confrontations and shouting matches between extremists and special interests—“red” versus “blue”—dominate the political scene.

Practical, solution-focused voters are marginalized and largely ignored, despite poll after poll showing them to be a clear majority in every state in the union.

Polling also reveals that, on most issues, there are one or more policies supported by at least two-thirds and opposed by fewer than one-sixth of registered voters in America.

Check it out and you will find that large bipartisan majorities support many practical policy proposals on many pressing issues.  To name a few: Social Security & Medicare, immigration, poverty programs, jobs, housing, cost of living, the federal budget, energy & the environment, police reform, election reform, government reform, abortion & reproductive rights, gun safety, and international trade.

Why don’t we hear about these workable solutions to real concerns? Because politicians, parties, and special interests benefit by keeping this hidden, especially during elections. But the fact remains that we Americans agree on a lot of policies that would guide government to solve many of our nagging problems.

This is the unacknowledged common ground that UniVote reveals and empowers.

This website introduces a radically new way for digital technology to empower voters willing to seek solutions—to rally them with remarkable efficiency behind the issues and policies they overwhelmingly support and mobilize them to evaluate candidates in a way that diminishes the influence of special interests and extreme partisans at the ballot box.

This project is the work of ordinary citizens like you. It is led by William Spira, a retired scientist and educator, who started designing the model during the COVID-19 lockdown.

This grew into a manuscript—UniVote Town Halls: Mobilizing Common Ground Voters to Fix America’s Broken Democracy—that provides the blueprint for building a working model to pilot in 2026.

When fully operational, the web-based UniVote platform will allow large groups of Common Ground Voters to quickly and easily reach consensus on issues, policies, and candidates.

Keep in mind that, in this role, UniVote is strictly a non-partisan tool that simply reveals the collective will of the voters using it. Unlike anything seen before in politics, it does not set an agenda for voters.

The upshot is this: By spending just a few hours during an election year using the UniVote app, hundreds of thousands of pragmatic voters in a state can unite as a virtual yet influential voting bloc and help elect candidates who will be faithful to their priorities.

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Here’s how it works

UniVote reveals where voters overwhelmingly agree on issues and policies—agreement that is deliberately ignored by the political establishment.

It then helps voters utilize their consensus as the basis for united action at the ballot box.

Pragmatic, solution-focused voters—Democrats, Republicans, and independents—constitute the majority of the electorate. Most:

Today’s highly partisan politics has drowned out the voices of these voters. “In-your-face” confrontations and shouting matches between extremists and special interests—“red” versus “blue”—dominate the political scene.

Practical, solution-focused voters are marginalized and largely ignored, despite poll after poll showing them to be a clear majority in every state in the union.

Polling also reveals that, on most issues, there are one or more policies supported by at least two-thirds and opposed by fewer than one-sixth of registered voters in America.

Check it out and you will find that large bipartisan majorities support many practical policy proposals on many pressing issues.  To name a few: Social Security & Medicare, immigration, poverty programs, jobs, housing, cost of living, the federal budget, energy & the environment, police reform, election reform, government reform, abortion & reproductive rights, gun safety, and international trade.

Why don’t we hear about these workable solutions to real concerns? Because politicians, parties, and special interests benefit by keeping this hidden, especially during elections. But the fact remains that we Americans agree on a lot of policies that would guide government to solve many of our nagging problems.

This is the unacknowledged common ground that UniVote reveals and empowers.

This website introduces a radically new way for digital technology to empower voters willing to seek solutions—to rally them with remarkable efficiency behind the issues and policies they overwhelmingly support and mobilize them to evaluate candidates in a way that diminishes the influence of special interests and extreme partisans at the ballot box.

This project is the work of ordinary citizens like you. It is led by William Spira, a retired scientist and educator, who started designing the model during the COVID-19 lockdown.

This grew into a manuscript—UniVote Town Halls: Mobilizing Common Ground Voters to Fix America’s Broken Democracy—that provides the blueprint for building a working model to pilot in 2026.

When fully operational, the web-based UniVote platform will allow large groups of Common Ground Voters to quickly and easily reach consensus on issues, policies, and candidates.

Keep in mind that, in this role, UniVote is strictly a non-partisan tool that simply reveals the collective will of the voters using it. Unlike anything seen before in politics, it does not set an agenda for voters.

The upshot is this: By spending just a few hours during an election year using the UniVote app, hundreds of thousands of pragmatic voters in a state can unite as a virtual yet influential voting bloc and help elect candidates who will be faithful to their priorities.

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Here’s how it works

UniVote reveals where voters overwhelmingly agree on issues and policies—agreement that is deliberately ignored by the political establishment.

It then helps voters utilize their consensus as the basis for united action at the ballot box.

Pragmatic, solution-focused voters—Democrats, Republicans, and independents—constitute the majority of the electorate. Most:

Today’s highly partisan politics has drowned out the voices of these voters. “In-your-face” confrontations and shouting matches between extremists and special interests—“red” versus “blue”—dominate the political scene.

Practical, solution-focused voters are marginalized and largely ignored, despite poll after poll showing them to be a clear majority in every state in the union.

Polling also reveals that, on most issues, there are one or more policies supported by at least two-thirds and opposed by fewer than one-sixth of registered voters in America.

Check it out and you will find that large bipartisan majorities support many practical policy proposals on many pressing issues.  To name a few: Social Security & Medicare, immigration, poverty programs, jobs, housing, cost of living, the federal budget, energy & the environment, police reform, election reform, government reform, abortion & reproductive rights, gun safety, and international trade.

Why don’t we hear about these workable solutions to real concerns? Because politicians, parties, and special interests benefit by keeping this hidden, especially during elections. But the fact remains that we Americans agree on a lot of policies that would guide government to solve many of our nagging problems.

This is the unacknowledged common ground that UniVote reveals and empowers.

This website introduces a radically new way for digital technology to empower voters willing to seek solutions—to rally them with remarkable efficiency behind the issues and policies they overwhelmingly support and mobilize them to evaluate candidates in a way that diminishes the influence of special interests and extreme partisans at the ballot box.

This project is the work of ordinary citizens like you. It is led by William Spira, a retired scientist and educator, who started designing the model during the COVID-19 lockdown.

This grew into a manuscript—UniVote Town Halls: Mobilizing Common Ground Voters to Fix America’s Broken Democracy—that provides the blueprint for building a working model to pilot in 2026.

When fully operational, the web-based UniVote platform will allow large groups of Common Ground Voters to quickly and easily reach consensus on issues, policies, and candidates.

Keep in mind that, in this role, UniVote is strictly a non-partisan tool that simply reveals the collective will of the voters using it. Unlike anything seen before in politics, it does not set an agenda for voters.

The upshot is this: By spending just a few hours during an election year using the UniVote app, hundreds of thousands of pragmatic voters in a state can unite as a virtual yet influential voting bloc and help elect candidates who will be faithful to their priorities.

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Town Halls

Town Halls will become active as soon as enough voters have signed up as members to provide statistically valid study groups and we have fully developed a working prototype of the basic agenda-building software.

We hope to go live with activity by mid-January.  This will include mainly controlled testing of the UniVote decision-making protocol for ranking issues and approving policy proposals.  This may be augmented with focus groups, other surveys, and interviews.

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Which three of these issues MUST candidates in the 2026 Wisconsin Governor’s Election talk about and offer their solutions?

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Grow Political Power on Common Ground

Three out of four voters are frustrated by polarization and eager to hear practical solutions from politicians. They think that partisan politics, gridlock, and toxic elections are completely out of control.

Does this sound like you? Then you may be a Common Ground Voter—one of the silenced majority. If so, it’s time to give yourself and voters like you a lot more clout at the ballot box.

We are building the web-based UniVote platform to empower Common Ground Voters.  We aim to pilot test a working model in the 2026 Wisconsin election cycle. You can help by filling out the membership form on this website to participate in agenda-building activities beginning in January.  You can also help by subscribing to our Substack newsletter.

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THE WAY TO MAKE YOUR VOICE HEARD

UniVote’s Modern Day
Town Hall Meeting

Imagine 100,000 Common Ground Voters—Republicans, Democrats, and independents—packing Camp Randall Stadium in Madison next May to define their shared priorities before the 2026 Wisconsin election campaigns begin in earnest.

Filling Camp Randall is one way to envision bringing a voting bloc together with UniVote digital technology. The vast audience is a diverse cross-section of the state, encompassing a broad range of political beliefs and geographic areas.

The red and blue dots in the animation reflect how evenly Republicans and Democrats split in this perennial battleground state. This is likely to be the pattern among Common Ground Voters, as well.  The white dots remind us that independents will also play a significant role in the voting bloc being formed.

Every member of this large audience connects through their phone to the web-based UniVote platform, allowing them to share decision-making in an environment free from campaign noise, attack ads, and partisan “spin.”

Each voter gives their opinions about which issues have priority or which policy proposals should be approved.  This takes each voter little more than three sessions of 30 minutes each on the phone.  In just a few minutes more—even though they deal with as many as 100 issues and more than 5,000 policy proposals—the entire 100,000-person assembly knows what common ground they share on priority issues and supermajority policies.

The scoreboard tracks the progress toward achieving supermajority approval for proposed policies.  Only one of six appears to have reached the necessary threshold: approval by at least two-thirds of those voting.

We aim to launch a basic working model of UniVote as a pilot intervention in the 2026 Wisconsin election cycle. While Badger State voters will be directly involved, this pilot is vital to pragmatic, solution-focused citizens across America.  Success will lead to a regional intervention in 2028 and a nationwide rollout in 2032.

With about six months to go, we are at the point where we need input from thousands of registered voters to produce the best system possible.  We also need to raise awareness and develop crowdfunding sources to finance the growing project.

If you agree that this is an important project, join by filling out the membership form below and by subscribing to our project’s Substack newsletter.  

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A statewide Town Hall of 99,000 UniVoters
1000 UniVoters from each of Wisconsin’s 99 Assembly Districts
Our Goal

Create a Statewide Voting
Bloc Too Big for Politicians
to Ignore in 2026

Common Ground Voters don’t have to come together at Camp Randall to do their civic duty.

With UniVote’s web-based platform, they can stay home and network with hundreds of thousands of pragmatic Democrats, Republicans, and independents from every corner of Wisconsin.

  • At the start of the election year, they can create a Common Ground Agenda in just a couple of hours.
  • Later, before the primary and general elections, they can just as easily evaluate how candidates—in side-by-side video presentations—respond to their Agenda.

In future elections, this voting bloc of solution-focused Badger voters can endorse and elect the candidates who best align with the Common Ground Agenda.

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Get Involved Now—We Can Use Your Help

Over the next six months, we will develop a working model of the web-based UniVote platform, which will provide the foundation for Common Ground Voters activities.

While our team’s experts can design and build the technology, we also need input from active voters like you. Please consider telling us what you think this system should look like and helping us test its working parts to ensure they function correctly.

We are organizing two activities to facilitate your input:

  • Substack Newsletters, to gather the comments and questions of everyday voters
  • Town Halls, where we collect user opinions and responses through simulations of the protocol being developed

To learn more and share your thoughts, please subscribe to our Newsletter.

To take part in our Town Halls, sign up below as a team member.

Weekly Newsletters

Each Tuesday, our Substack newsletter, COMMON GROUND VOTERS|UniVote posts an essay that discusses a key aspect of the voting bloc strategy and the digital technology that supports it.

These short essays are designed to prompt readers’ thoughts on the week’s topic.  Each issue ends with a strong encouragement to share thoughts and questions in the Comments section.

We will compile and evaluate all comments and questions utilizing AI assistance. At intervals, we will post Feedback issues to discuss important insights we have gained and to answer subscribers’ common questions.

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Town Halls

Our work raises many practical questions that are best answered with volunteer input. These activities will model the experience of the Town Hall protocol that will be piloted in 2026.

Beginning in January, we hope to have a thousand or more voters like you engaged in short, once-a-week sessions, ranking and approving test sets of issues and policy proposals, along with other activities.

This will provide us with valuable insights that we can get nowhere else as easily and fully.

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Become a Common Ground Voter!

HELP US build a path to REAL VOTER POWER in 2026, 2028, and beyond.

Who will save our democracy?

         If not voters like you, then who?
Insiders?     Hardcore Partisans? 
Special Interests?       Billionaires?

By joining now, you will be subscribing to our Substack newsletter, which is emailed weekly, and inviting us to ask you to fill out brief user questionnaires as part of our protype development in January-April, 2026.

If you are a Wisconsin registered voter, your name and data will automatically be added to the voter list for the planned pilot in May. You will be reminded of this at the time and given a chance to opt out.

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César Vallejo, a famous Peruvian poet, said, “Hay, hermanos, muchísmo que hacer”—There is, brothers (and sisters), a lot to do.

 In any language, this much is clear:

We still have a lot to do, and we could sure use your help!

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