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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.

This revealed consensus gives voters the basis for united action at the ballot box.

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

Are disillusioned with hyper-partisanship.
Prefer practical solutions over partisan purity.
Seek areas of political agreement with other voters, regardless of party, willing to do the same.

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 almost every state in the union.

Polling also reveals that, on most issues, there are one or more policies supported by at least two-thirds of voters and opposed by only a few.

Policy proposals with bipartisan majority support address issues such as: 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 broadly supported, 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.

UniVote is a radically new strategy for applying digital technology to empower voters willing to seek solutions—to make them aware with remarkable efficiency of the issues and policies they overwhelmingly support. In future, this will build the foundation for them to mobilize 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 fully functional system.

The UniVote Town Hall is a strictly 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 voters in a state can find common political ground and identify candidates who will be faithful to their priorities.

Here’s how it works

The UniVote Town Hall replaces outdated, unstructured political organizing with highly efficient, web-based technology.

UniVote is entirely digital. It is presented in a fully accessible, transparent Town Hall format, ensuring every participant has an equal voice.
It combines proven statistical methods and respected democratic strategies with a computer-supported decision-making model that enables efficient consensus-building among large groups of voters.

Here are the key steps in the complete UniVote process:

Create a Town Hall “assembly” that closely mirrors the political continuum of voters who pledge to seek solutions across partisan lines.
- This commitment challenges the few extremists and hyper-partisans who might seek to participate.
Ensure that the assembly is balanced geographically by enrolling an equal number of voters from each of the state’s assembly districts.
- Establish the political typology of each participating voter based on their values, beliefs, and views about politics.
Provide the assembled “UniVoters” with a starting set of issues and policy proposals that cover the full spectrum of political viewpoints. For example:
- Include up to 100 issues.
- Ensure that each issue is addressed by 50 rigorously drafted policy proposals that fairly represent the full range of ideas being publicly proposed for that issue.
Use multiple, representative panels of UniVoters to consider, compare, approve, and rank issues and policies.
- Divide the UniVoters into ten-member, representative panels.
  - Use stratified random sampling to ensure that each panel is a microcosm of the state’s political typology and geographic diversity.
Randomly divide the decision-making workload into manageable blocks for each panel. Involve many panels in each decision.
- Give the ten members of a panel the same set of issues, policies, or candidates to review.
- Rank issues and policy proposals by comparing pairs of options.
- Limit decision-making to one of two simple actions: 1) approve, accept, or oppose each item in the pair; or 2) compare the two items and record a preference.
Combine the outcomes of thousands of individual decisions to determine the highest-ranked issues and the policies that have super-majority approval.
- Determine rank by Copeland scoring of every option vs every other option: i.e., count head-to-head wins/ties/losses for all options
- Set the threshold for supermajority approval at two-thirds approving with only one-sixth opposing.
- Compile the issues addressed by at least one supermajority policy into a Common Ground Agenda.

In the future, the UniVote Town Hall model can be extended to enable participants to use the same panel-based protocol to evaluate candidates (both ranking and approval scoring). This may be done using video clips of candidates’ responses to issues in the Common Ground Agenda—done in “side-by-side” matchups between pairs of candidates.

In this future application, UniVoters can endorse candidates based on how closely they align (compared to their opponents) with the Common Ground Agenda.

Here’s how it works

The general protocol for UniVote Town Halls follows these guidelines:

Each Town Hall meeting is an online event with a 48-hour open window during which members of the statewide network of participants can log in at their convenience.
During each meeting, a UniVoter spends about 30 minutes on their phone ranking and approving 10 to 20 pairs of options.
UniVoters receive email or text alerts when a Town Hall meeting is scheduled. They can join the meeting at a convenient time and from any location.
UniVote compiles voters’ collective decisions and publishes approval scores and rankings.
When the Common Ground Agenda is published in future elections, each UniVoter is asked to pledge to use it as the standard for evaluating candidates in the elections later in the year.

Here’s how it works

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

This revealed consensus gives voters the basis for united action at the ballot box.

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

Are disillusioned with hyper-partisanship.
Prefer practical solutions over partisan purity.
Seek areas of political agreement with other voters, regardless of party, willing to do the same.

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 almost every state in the union.

Polling also reveals that, on most issues, there are one or more policies supported by at least two-thirds of voters and opposed by only a few.

Policy proposals with bipartisan majority support address issues such as: 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 broadly supported, 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.

UniVote is a radically new strategy for applying digital technology to empower voters willing to seek solutions—to make them aware with remarkable efficiency of the issues and policies they overwhelmingly support. In future, this will build the foundation for them to mobilize 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 fully functional system.

The UniVote Town Hall is a strictly 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 voters in a state can find common political ground and identify candidates who will be faithful to their priorities.

Here’s how it works

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

This revealed consensus gives voters the basis for united action at the ballot box.

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

Are disillusioned with hyper-partisanship.
Prefer practical solutions over partisan purity.
Seek areas of political agreement with other voters, regardless of party, willing to do the same.

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 almost every state in the union.

Polling also reveals that, on most issues, there are one or more policies supported by at least two-thirds of voters and opposed by only a few.

Policy proposals with bipartisan majority support address issues such as: 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 broadly supported, 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.

UniVote is a radically new strategy for applying digital technology to empower voters willing to seek solutions—to make them aware with remarkable efficiency of the issues and policies they overwhelmingly support. In future, this will build the foundation for them to mobilize 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 fully functional system.

The UniVote Town Hall is a strictly 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 voters in a state can find common political ground and identify candidates who will be faithful to their priorities.

Here’s how it works

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

This revealed consensus gives voters the basis for united action at the ballot box.

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

Are disillusioned with hyper-partisanship.
Prefer practical solutions over partisan purity.
Seek areas of political agreement with other voters, regardless of party, willing to do the same.

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 almost every state in the union.

Polling also reveals that, on most issues, there are one or more policies supported by at least two-thirds of voters and opposed by only a few.

Policy proposals with bipartisan majority support address issues such as: 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 broadly supported, 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.

UniVote is a radically new strategy for applying digital technology to empower voters willing to seek solutions—to make them aware with remarkable efficiency of the issues and policies they overwhelmingly support. In future, this will build the foundation for them to mobilize 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 fully functional system.

The UniVote Town Hall is a strictly 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 voters in a state can find common political ground and identify candidates who will be faithful to their priorities.

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.

Privacy Policy

Effective Date: September 20, 2025

COMMON GROUND VOTERS|UniVote (“we,” “us,” “our”) respects your privacy and is committed to protecting your personal information. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, and share information when you opt in to receive SMS and email messages from us.

Information We Collect:

When you opt in to receive SMS messages and emails, we collect:

Your phone number
Your email address
Consent to send SMS messages and emails

How We Use Your Information:

We use your information to:

Send you the SMS messages you’ve opted in to receive
Send you emails you’ve opted to receive
Provide updates, promotions, or other relevant content based on your preferences

Text Messaging Opt-In Data:

We will not share or sell your text messaging opt-in data, consent, or related personal information with any third parties, unless required by law. We will never share your phone number, email address, or opt-in information with third parties for marketing purposes.

Your Rights:

You can opt out of receiving SMS messages at any time by replying with “STOP” to any message we send you. You can opt out of receiving emails at any time by clicking the Unsubscribe link at the end of any email we send you.

Data Security:

We implement reasonable measures to protect your personal information from unauthorized access or disclosure.

Contact Us:

If you have questions or concerns about our privacy practices, contact us at contact@univote.net