Ranked Choice Voting Supporters 

A Partial List

2014 Endorsers of Ranked Choice Voting
  • 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.