Many Americans from all sides of politics do not believe that elected officials represent their interests. They think both major parties are not listening to and dealing with the problems of everyday people. Instead, leaders often try to protect their own jobs by making elections less competitive and harder for new candidates to run and win.

Consensus Choice creates real competition so the parties and candidates have to listen to everyday people. It also makes it harder for party insiders, activists, or special interest groups to control who wins.

In Consensus Choice, every voter gets an equal say in the outcome. The election winner is the candidate that best and most fairly reflects the voters’ choices.

When elections aren’t competitive, people get divided and stop caring. With fair competition, we find common ground. No more party-only primaries. No more ranked voting systems with black box counting algorithms where candidates are eliminated and votes stop counting.

To win in Consensus Choice, candidates need support from many different voters, not just their party’s base. That means less extreme messaging and more problem-solving that appeals across groups.

Most of us live in places where we do not have a meaningful say in which candidate wins. We deserve a system where competition between our political parties means that their platforms speak to the interests of the average voter, rather than to partisans, activists, or special interests.

In our current system, politicians cater to partisans and special interests to win a primary and then change their message to appeal to other voters to win a general election. This makes it hard to keep leaders accountable to the voters. With Consensus Choice, the best strategy is the same from the start: appeal to the most voters overall.

In Consensus Choice, every voter is heard and every vote is counted.

By making elections competitive, Consensus Choice also makes them simpler. Under our current system, many people feel like they must vote for someone they don’t like to stop someone else from winning.

With Consensus Choice, you can vote honestly for the candidates you like most AND still have a say on the ones you like least.

In Consensus Choice, no candidates are eliminated. Every head-to-head contest among candidates is worth as much as every other. This means a candidate with a small but loud group of supporters doesn’t win just because other voters split their support among several similar candidates that most people like better.

It also means voters can support a third-party candidate without worrying it will hurt the chances of their preferred major party candidate.

In current elections, the major party candidates are just competing against each other (if they’re competing at all). In Consensus Choice, the major party candidates compete on a fair playing field against all of the other candidates on the ballot.

Winning in head-to-head matchups matters equally, whether the candidate is Democratic, Republican, Green, Conservative, Socialist, Libertarian, or Rent Is 2 Damn High.