Abstract: A system is provided for facilitating free communication of group attitudes and responses through a series of group decisional processes based on voting. In the preferred form, a vote selector unit, such as a keyboard provides each voting entity within the group with means to choose one of a variety of informational characters, such as the letters of the alphabet and appropriate punctuation marks, in sequence to form a message in response to an inquiry or other stimulus. A data processing system senses an electrical signal output from each vote selector means to record and tabulate the choice of each voting entity during successive discrete polling intervals and counts the total votes accorded each informational character during each such interval. The total votes thus counted for each informational character are successively compared to determine the specific character or characters that received a predetermined plurality of the votes during each such polling interval.