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<\/em><\/p>\n\u201cWHO Americans vote for is far less important than HOW they vote,\u201d said Founder of CSUA and retired Naval Commander and gaming systems specialist Ted Getschman. \u201cWhen it comes to solving the gridlock in America, we\u2019ve been looking in the wrong direction. You can\u2019t blame the American people, or even the politicians. It\u2019s not Mitch McConnell or Nancy Pelosi or even dark money. It\u2019s just collateral damage. It\u2019s the unintended byproduct of an antiquated voting system.\u201d<\/p>\n
Commander Getschman calls his new voting system MaxVoting, and it works a lot like the star rating system for products on Amazon. \u201cWhen Americans go to the ballot box, we ask them who do you want to win? Red or blue? Right or left? That\u2019s the wrong question,\u201d Getschman says. \u201cAnd it leaves almost half the country frustrated and suspicious of the results.\u201d<\/p>\n
In MaxVoting, voters are asked to express their opinion in a star rating that reflects on how much each candidate agrees with their stand on the issues. The candidate with the most stars at the end wins the election, because they will have agreed with most people the most. MaxVoting measures voter opinion on all of the candidates, rather than just voting once in a choice of two.<\/p>\n
Common Sense for Uniting America believes that MaxVoting would make political division obsolete, because it\u2019s a system that doesn\u2019t begin by dividing the electorate. And candidates are not incentivized to enflame their bases, because majority opinion, the winning position, lies most often in the center.<\/p>\n
\u201cReplacing majority rule with majority opinion rule would incentivize candidates to move to the center, in order to align with America\u2019s steadying heartbeat, rather than today\u2019s volatile extremes,\u201d Getschman said. \u201cIt would change everything practically overnight.\u201d<\/p>\n
Common Sense for Uniting America filed a ballot initiative on March 1 to institute MaxVoting in Nevada. It is a part of a larger state-by-state effort to update America\u2019s voting process to reflect the demands of the 21st century. They need 150,000 Nevada voters to register on CommonSenseforUnitingAmerica.org<\/a> to get the initiative on the ballot.<\/p>\n \u201cWe could heal political division in America, and nobody would have to change their minds about anything,\u201d Getschman added. \u201cIn most states, we wouldn\u2019t even have to reprint the ballot forms.\u201d<\/p>\n Common Sense for Uniting America<\/p>\n https:\/\/www.commonsenseforunitingamerica.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n