Winners of Nobel Prize

• Peter Diamond, MIT (2010 award in economic sciences)
• Angus Deaton, Princeton University (2015 award in economic sciences)
• Oliver Hart, Harvard (2016 award in economic sciences)
• Eric Maskin, Harvard University (2007 award in economic sciences)
• Roger Myerson, University of Chicago (2007 award in economic sciences)
• William Nordhaus, Yale University (2018 award in economic sciences)
• Edmund Phelps, Columbia University (2006 award in economic sciences)
• Alvin Roth, Stanford University (2012 award in economic sciences)
• Thomas Sargent, New York University (2011 award in economic sciences)
• Robert Shiller, Yale University (2013 award in economic sciences)

Winners of Johan Skytte Prize ("The Nobel for political science")

• Robert Axelrod, University of Michigan (2013 winner)
• Francis Fukuyama, Freeman Spogli Institute for Intl. Studies, Stanford (2015 winner)
• Peter Joachim Katzenstein, Cornell University (2020 winner)
• Robert Keohane, Princeton University (2005 winner)
• Arend Lijphart, University of California - San Diego (1997 winner)
• Jane Mansbridge, Harvard University (2018 winner)
• Robert Putnam, Harvard University (2006 winner)
• Philippe Schmitter, European University Institute (2009 winner)
• Rein Taagepera, University of California - Irvine (2008 winner)
  

Scholars on democracy, elections and mathematics

Sam Wang
Professor of neuroscience at Princeton UniversityPrinceton University

Jane Mansbridge
Political scientist, and Charles F. Adams Professor of Political Leadership and Democratic Values in the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.

Roger Myerson
American economist and professor at the University of Chicago

Danielle Allen
Professor at Harvard University and Director of Harvard’s Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics

Robert Shiller
American economist, Sterling Professor of Economics at Yale University, and best-selling author.

Francis Fukuyama
American political scientist, political economist, writer and senior fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies.

• Alan Abramowitz, Emory University
• Danielle Allen, Harvard University
• Nikolas Bowie, Harvard Law School
• Shaun Bowler, University of California-Riverside
• Charles Bullock, University of Georgia
• Barry Burden, University of Wisconsin
• John Carey, Dartmouth College
• Rachael Cobb, Suffolk University
• Michael Crespin, University of Oklahoma
• Larry Diamond, Stanford University 
• Todd Donovan, Western Washington University
• Joshua Douglas, University of Kentucky College of Law
• David Farrell, University College Dublin 
• Caroline Frederickson, 2020 Georgetown Law distinguished visitor
• Keith Gaddie, University of Oklahoma 
• William Galston, Brookings Institution
• Nicholas Goedert, Lafayette College 
• Paul Gronke, Reed College & 2020 Carnegie Fellow 
• Bob Holmes, Clark Atlanta University (emeritus)
• Mark Jones, Rice University
• Pam Karlan, Stanford Law School 
• Phil Keisling, former Oregon Secretary of State / Center for Public Service at Portland State Univ.
• Alex Keyssar, Harvard University
• David Kimball, University of Missouri-St. Louis
• Douglas Kriner, Cornell University
• Didi Kuo, Freeman Spogli Institute for Intl. Studies, Stanford
• Michael Latner, California Polytechnic State University
• Lawrence Lessig, Harvard Law School
• Justin Levitt, Loyola Law School 
• David Lublin, American University
• Sandy Maisel, Colby College
• Alan Butler Morrison, George Washington Law School
• Steven Mulroy, University of Memphis Law School
• Jack Nagel, University of Pennsylvania (emeritus)
• G. Bingham Powell, University of Rochester (former APSA president)
• Miles Rapoport, Harvard Kennedy School (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
• Mark Rush, Washington and Lee University
• Matthew Shugart, University of California-Davis (emeritus)
• Nicholas Stephanopoulos, Harvard Law School 
• James Thurber, American University
• Caroline Tolbert, University of Iowa 
• Franita Tolson, University of Southern California Law School
• Ismar Volić, Wellesley College 
• Sam Wang, Princeton University
• Tova Wang, Harvard Kennedy School

Newspapers & Magazines
(last updated Nov. 2020; additional editorials here):

• The New York Times with a general position in 2018 and with a position in support of RCV for presidential primaries in 2020
• The Washington Post in a long series of editorials, including this editorial about city council elections in 2020 and this editorial focused on Maryland and Virginia in 2019
• The Boston Globe in a general editorial in 2018 and in favor of a state ballot measure in 2020
• The Economist magazine in 2018
• Publications in cities with RCV, including the Portland Press Herald (2011), Santa Fe New Mexican (2018) and Minneapolis Star Tribune (in 2016)

National Political Leaders 

Elizabeth Warren
Massachusettes U.S. Senator 

John McCain
Former Arizona U.S. Senator 

Barack Obama
Former U.S. President 

Andrew Yang
Former Democratic Presidential Candidate, American entrepreneur, politician, political commentator, philanthropist and author.

Jo Jorgensen
Former Libertarian Presidential Candidate, political activist and academic







Gary Herbert
Former Governor of Utah

• Both major party presidential nominees in 2008 had taken leadership roles in supporting RCV, including in this radio ad in 2002 by Sen. John McCain (R) and this pro-RCV legislation sponsored by Barack Obama in 2002
• Major party presidential candidates have backed ranked choice voting, including in: these video clips from Bernie Sanders (in 2019) and Andrew Yang (in 2019); these op-eds from Elizabeth Warren (n 2020), Howard Dean (in 2016) and Bill Weld (in 2020) and the leadership role and public statements of Deval Patrick and John Kerry in a 2020 ballot measure campaign
• Minor party presidential candidates supporting ranked choice voting in the 2000's include: Libertarian Party nominees Gary Johnson and Jo Jorgensen; Green Party nominees Jill Stein, Howie Hawkins, Ralph Nader, Cynthia McKinney and David Cobb; and independent Evan McMullin
• Former Minnesota governor Arne Carlson (R) and U.S. Senator Dave Durenberger coauthored this 2020 oped supporting ranked choice voting in their state. 
• In 2020, Utah governor Gary Herbert (R) explained his support for ranked choice voting for primaries in this TV news story In 2019, Maine governor Janet Mills (D) explained her approval of legislation to expand RCV to presidential elections.
• Hundreds of state legislators and Members of Congress have sponsored ranked choice voting legislation

Authors and Thought Leaders

Malcolm Gladwell
Journalist, author, and public speaker

David Brooks
Conservative political and cultural commentator who writes for The New York Times

Hasan Minhaj
Television host and comedian

Ben Shapiro
Political commentator

Briahna Joy Gray
American political commentator, lawyer, and political consultant

Chris Stirewalt
Fox political analyst

• Featured recommendation in final report of the Academy of Arts and Science’s Commission on the Practice of Democratic Citizenship in 2020
• League of Women Voters positions after studies in more than 10 states
• Harvard Business School professor Michael Porter in 2020 book with businesswoman Katherine Gehl
• Danielle Allen, Director of Harvard’s Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics in 2020 column
• Scholar Larry Diamond in 2018 article
• Harvard law professor Larry Lessig in this 2019 column
• American Enterprise Institute’s Norm Ornstein in 2017 book with EJ Dionne & Thomas Mann
• Washington Post columnist Henry Olsen in 2020 column
• Author Bill McKibben in 2020 column
• Santa Claus, City Council Member, North Pole, Alaska, in 2020 (true story)
• The Talking Heads' David Byrne (2020), Phish's Jon Fishman (2020) and Nirvana's Krist Novoselic (2018) in interviews