Ranked choice voting endorsers

Ranked choice voting has drawn widespread support from elected officials, thought leaders, academic experts, prominent organizations, and newspapers. Below are just some of the many Americans who support the nation’s fastest-growing nonpartisan voting reform.

Federal Officials State & Local Officials Thought Leaders
Lisa Murkowski

U.S. senator from Alaska

Angus King

U.S. senator from Maine

Raphael Warnock

U.S. senator from Georgia

Photo of Pete Buttigieg standing in front of a United States flag and a Department of Transportation flag
Pete Buttigieg

Former U.S. Secretary of Transportation

Headshot of U.S. Senator Joe Manchin standing in front of a bookshelf.
Joe Manchin

Former U.S. senator from West Virginia

Andy Kim wearing a suit and standing in front of the columns of the U.S. Capitol
Andy Kim

U.S. senator from New Jersey

Headshot of politician Mitt Romney wearing a suit and standing in front of an American flag.
Mitt Romney

Former U.S. senator from Utah

Elizabeth Warren

U.S. senator from
Massachusetts

Photo of Cory Booker standing in front of a curtain.
Cory Booker

U.S. senator from New Jersey

Photo of Ro Khanna in front of an American flag
Ro Khanna

U.S. representative (CA-17)

Photo of Jamie Raskin wearing a stripped tie in front of an American flag
Jamie Raskin

U.S. representative (MD-8)

Photo of Don Beyer sitting on a stool
Don Beyer

U.S. representative (VA-8)

Photo of Ken Buck wearing a suit and standing in front of an American flag
Ken Buck

Former U.S. representative (CO)

Teresa Leger Fernández

U.S. representative (NM-3)

Headshot of Denver Riggleman in front of an American flag
Denver Riggleman

Former U.S. representative (VA)

Photo of Representative Ritchie Torres in front of an American flag and backdrop that looks like the sky
Ritchie Torres

U.S. representative (NY-15)

Additional federal officials

Additional state and local officials

Additional thought leaders

Additional academic experts

Numerous academic experts have endorsed greater use of ranked choice voting in the United States, including 10 Nobel Prize laureates in economic sciences and nine winners of the Johan Skytte Prize (“the Nobel of political science”). You can also see an open letter from academics supporting the Fair Representation Act here.

  • Alan Abramowitz, Emory University
  • Robert Axelrod, University of Michigan**
  • Rosa Brooks, Georgetown Law School
  • Nikolas Bowie, Harvard Law School
  • Shaun Bowler, University of California at Riverside
  • Charles Bullock, University of Georgia
  • Barry Burden, University of Wisconsin
  • John Carey, Dartmouth College
  • Rachael Cobb, Suffolk University
  • Michael Crespin, University of Oklahoma
  • Angus Deaton, Princeton University*
  • Larry Diamond, Stanford University
  • Peter Diamond, Massachusetts Institute of Technology*
  • Todd Donovan, Western Washington University
  • Joshua Douglas, University of Kentucky College of Law
  • David Farrell, University College Dublin
  • Caroline Frederickson, Georgetown Law School, 2020 distinguished visitor
  • Francis Fukuyama, Stanford**
  • Keith Gaddie, University of Oklahoma
  • Nicholas Goedert, Lafayette College
  • Paul Gronke, Reed College and 2020 Andrew Carnegie Fellow
  • Oliver Hart, Harvard University*
  • Bob Holmes, Clark Atlanta University (emeritus)
  • Mark Jones, Rice University
  • Pam Karlan, Stanford Law School
  • Peter Joachim Katzenstein, Cornell University**
  • Robert Keohane, Princeton University**
  • Alex Keyssar, Harvard University
  • David Kimball, University of Missouri at St. Louis
  • Douglas Kriner, Cornell University
  • Didi Kuo, Stanford University
  • Lawrence Lessig, Harvard Law School
  • Justin Levitt, Loyola Law School
  • Arend Lijphart, University of California at San Diego**
  • David Lublin, American University
  • Sandy Maisel, Colby College
  • Jane Mansbridge, Harvard University**
  • Eric Maskin, Harvard University*
  • Alan Butler Morrison, The George Washington Law School
  • Roger Myerson, University of Chicago*
  • Jack Nagel, University of Pennsylvania (emeritus)
  • William Nordhaus, Yale University*
  • Edmund Phelps, Columbia University*
  • G. Bingham Powell, University of Rochester and former president of the American Political Science Association
  • Robert Putnam, Harvard University**
  • Miles Rapoport, Harvard University and former Connecticut Secretary of State
  • Ronald Rapoport, College of William and Mary (emeritus)
  • John Rapp, Beloit College (emeritus)
  • Benjamin Reilly, University of Western Australia
  • Andrew Reynolds, Princeton University
  • Jonathan Rodden, Stanford University
  • Alvin Roth, Stanford University*
  • Mark Rush, Washington and Lee University
  • Thomas Sargent, New York University*
  • Philippe Schmitter, European University Institute**
  • Robert Shiller, Yale University*
  • Anne-Marie Slaughter, Princeton University (emerita)
  • Nicholas Stephanopoulos, Harvard Law School
  • Rein Taagepera, University of California at Irvine**
  • James Thurber, American University
  • Caroline Tolbert, University of Iowa
  • Franita Tolson, University of Southern California Law School
  • Ismar Volić, Wellesley College
  • Tova Wang, Harvard University

*Nobel Prize laureates in economic sciences
**Johan Skytte Prize winners