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
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David Brooks

New York Times commentator

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David Byrne

Guitarist for the Talking Heads

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Mark Cuban

Businessman and entrepreneur

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Andrew Yang

Founder of the Forward Party

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Danielle Allen

James Bryant Conant University Professor at Harvard

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Sam Wang

Professor of neuroscience at Princeton University

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Jennifer Lawrence

Actress and RepresentUs board member

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Evan McMullin

Former independent presidential candidate

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Amber McReynolds

Chair of the U.S. Postal Service Board of Governors

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Hasan Minhaj

Comedian

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Chase Oliver

Former Libertarian presidential candidate

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John Oliver

Host of Last Week Tonight

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Jon Fishman

Drummer for Phish

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Walter OIson

Cato Institute senior fellow

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Max Boot

Washington Post columnist

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Briahna Joy Gray

Political commentator and lawyer

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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