  The controversies around the 2020 US presidential elections certainly casts
serious concerns on the efficiency of the current voting system in representing
the people's will. Is the naive Plurality voting suitable in an extremely
polarized political environment? Alternate voting schemes are gradually gaining
public support, wherein the voters rank their choices instead of just voting
for their first preference. However they do not capture certain crucial aspects
of voter preferences like disapprovals and negativities against candidates. I
argue that these unexpressed negativities are the predominant source of
polarization in politics. I propose a voting scheme with an explicit expression
of these negative preferences, so that we can simultaneously decipher the
popularity as well as the polarity of each candidate. The winner is picked by
an optimal tradeoff between the most popular and the least polarizing
candidate. By penalizing the candidates for their polarization, we can
discourage the divisive campaign rhetorics and pave way for potential third
party candidates.
