Ranked Choice Voting Supporters
A Partial List
2014 Endorsers of Ranked Choice Voting
Endorsers of Ranked Choice Voting in 2006 charter amendment:
Introduced By
Elected Officials
Organizations
Oakland Residents
Other Supporters of RCV in Oakland
*An asterisk means for identification purposes only.
Interested in who backs ranked choice voting outside Oakland? See this national page.
- Wellstone Democratic Renewal Club (WDRC)
Endorsers of Ranked Choice Voting in 2006 charter amendment:
Introduced By
- Nancy Nadel, former Oakland City Councilmember, District 3
- Pat Kernighan, Oakland City Councilmember, District 2
Elected Officials
- Barbara Lee, Congresswoman, District 13 (Oakland)
- Wilma Chan, Almeda County Board of Supervisors, District 3
- Loni Hancock, California State Senate, District 9
- Keith Carson, Alameda County Board of Supervisors, District 5, President
- Alice Lai-Bitker, Former Alameda County Board of Supervisors, District 3
- John Russo, Alameda City Manager
- Wilson Riles, former Oakland City Councilmember, District 5*
- Dick Spees, former Oakland City Councilmember, District 4*
- David Kakishiba, Oakland School Board Member, District 2, President
- Linda Handy, Peralta Community Colleges Board of Trustees (Area 3)
- Sheila Jordan, Alameda County Superintendant of Schools
- Dan Siegel, Former Oakland School Board Member, District 2, Mayoral Candidate
- Christopher Dobbins, Oakland School Board Member, District 6
- Ken Rice, former Oakland School Board Member, District 1*
- Rebecca Kaplan, AC Transit Board of Directors, At-Large
- Doug Linney, East Bay MUD Board of Directors, Ward 5
- Christian Peeples, City Councilmember, At-Large
- Jesse Jackson Jr., Former Congressman (Illinois)
- Dennis Kucinich, Former Congressman (Ohio)
- Lena Tam, City of Alameda Councilmember
- Sandre Swanson, California State Assembly, District 16 (includes Oakland)
Organizations
- California Common Cause
- Central Labor Council of Alameda County
- Oakland League of Women Voters
- Oakland Tribune
- Sierra Club, San Francisco Bay Chapter, Oakland
- Spanish Speaking Citizens' Foundation
- Alameda County Democratic Party
- Oakland Greens
- East Bay Libertarian Party
- Alameda County Peace and Freedom Party
- 16th Assembly District Democratic Party Committee
- Alameda County Democratic Lawyers Club
- East Bay Young Democrats
- East Bay for Democracy
- East Bay LGBT Democratic Club
- John George Democratic Club
- Metropolitan Greater Oakland (MGO) Democratic Club
- Oakland "Democracy for America" Meetup
- Progressive Democrats of the East Bay
- Wellstone Democratic Renewal Club (WDRC)
- Oakland ACORN
- Oakland Globe
- California NAACP, Youth & College Division
- Californians for Electoral Reform
- Black Women Organized for Political Action
- East Bay Gray Panthers
- Greenlining Institute
- Just Cause Oakland
- League of Conservation Voters of the East Bay
- League of Pissed Off Voters (League of Young Voters PAC)
- National Women's Political Caucus - Alameda North
- Peralta Federation of Teachers
- Progressive Jewish Alliance
- San Francisco Bay Guardian
- Southwest Voter Registration Education Project (SVREP)
Oakland Residents
- Aimee Allison, Candidate for Oakland City Council, District 2
- Bill Balderston, Member, Oakland Education Association Executive Board*
- Jeff Fearn, City of Oakland Budget Advisory Committee*
- Ted Frey, MBA, Oakland Budget Advisory Committee*
- Corinne Jan, CEO, Family Bridges, Inc.*
- Peter Reinke, former Vice Chair of the Oakland Ethics Commission
- Rena Rickles, Alameda County Democratic Lawyers, Executive Board*
- Henry Rosales, Spanish Speaking Citizens Foundation*
- Courtney Ruby, Runoff Candidate, Oakland City Auditor
- Susan Schacher, Oakland Tenants Union*
- Ophelia Starks, MBA, Black Women Organized for Political Action*
- Ben Thompson, Unitarian Church Social Action Committee*
- Danny Wan, Cofounder of East Bay Asian Voter Education Consortium*
- Laura Wells, Green Party Candidate for Controller
- Eddie Ytuarte, Peace & Freedom candidate for Assembly, 16th District
Other Supporters of RCV in Oakland
- Steve Chessin, President, Californians for Electoral Reform
- Sean Dugar, NAACP Western Regional Field Director
- FairVote / Center for Voting and Democracy
- Antonio Gonzalez, President, Southwest Voter Registration Education Project (SVREP)
- Van Jones, Ella Baker Center, Board of Directors*
- Alix Rosenthal, Former President of the San Francisco Elections Commission
- Paul Turner, Adjunct Professor, Azusa Pacific University
*An asterisk means for identification purposes only.
Interested in who backs ranked choice voting outside Oakland? See this national page.