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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:

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.

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Here’s how it works

The UniVote Town Hall replaces outdated, unstructured political organizing with highly efficient, web-based technology.

Here are the key steps in the complete UniVote process:

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.

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Here’s how it works

The general protocol for UniVote Town Halls 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.

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:

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.

Close

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:

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.

Close

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:

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.

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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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Current List of 10 Issues to be Used in

the 2026 Pilot of the UniVote Town Hall Model

The following are the 10 issues that surveys suggest are going to be the highest priority concerns for Wisconsin voters during the upcoming 2026 election year.  The UniVote pilot test will include some or all of these issues in its starting set of issues & policy proposals.  This list may be modified if future circumstances warrant it.

Grow Political Power on Common Ground

We are building a working model of the UniVote Town Hall to be pilot tested next year in Wisconsin.  Registered Wisconsin voters willing to seek common political ground will be invited to participate and share their views on the issues and policies that Wisconsin’s public officials should address.

The current project is focused exclusively on building and validating the UniVote decision engine. This phase is nonpartisan and research oriented. Its purpose is to evaluate whether the system functions reliably and produces coherent results under realistic conditions. It does not involve voter mobilization, campaign coordination, endorsements, or electoral advocacy.

 

Here's How It Works
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 a football stadium like Camp Randall Stadium in Madison to define their shared priorities BEFORE partisan state and national election campaigns get underway.

Filling Camp Randall is one way to envision bringing together a vast, 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 via their phone to the web-based UniVote Town Hall platform, allowing them to participate in 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 about three phone sessions of 30 minutes each.  In just a few minutes more—even though they deal with thousands of options—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 will be piloting a basic working model of the UniVote Town Hall in 2026, inviting registered Badger State voters to participate in a test of the software designed to surface shared priorities at scale. The goal is to compile these priorities in a “Common Ground Agenda” to be distributed during the 2026 electoral campaign.  While this pilot is not intended to impact on-going elections, we will look for its influence on the thinking of participants and other voters, treating this as an emergent external effect to be measured.

Here's How It Works
A statewide Town Hall of 99,000 UniVoters
1000 UniVoters from each of Wisconsin’s 99 Assembly Districts
Our Goal

A Statewide Town Hall of Voters Too Big for Politicians to Ignore

Common Ground Voters don’t have to come together at a football stadium to do their civic duty.  An online statewide network in Wisconsin, for example, isn’t limited to the 100,000 voters who could be physically packed into Camp Randall.  

With UniVote’s web-based platform, voters can stay home and network with hundreds of thousands, even millions, of pragmatic Democrats, Republicans, and independents from every corner of their state.

By the end of January in an election year, voters can create a Common Ground Agenda in just a couple of hours. This agenda will then be a presence in the political arena for the forthcoming election campaigns for both state and national offices.

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Stay in Touch with

COMMON GROUND VOTERS!

Sign up below to get on our mailing list. We plan to send regular updates to anyone interested in following our progress.  By mid-2026, registered Wisconsin voters will be invited to participate in our pilot UniVote Town Halls. 

Who will save our democracy?

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

If we succeed, voters like you will have a powerful new voice as concerned citizens. We want to share our progress with you as we develop the UniVote Town Hall model. Sign up and leave your contact information so we can send you updates throughout the year.

If you are a Wisconsin-registered voter, be sure to check the box indicating you would like to participate in the pilot test scheduled for mid-2026.  We will ensure your name and contact information are added to the pilot database. You will be reminded of this at the appropriate 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 use your support!

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