Californians for Electoral Reform has been working for Proportional Representation and Ranked Choice Voting for over 20 years, and we continue to work on these issues actively.  We are an action-oriented group, with chapters and contacts around the state, working in the State Legislature, and working in many local communities, promoting and educating about PR and RCV.

We have helped San Leandro, Oakland, San Francisco, Berkeley, Albany, and Redondo Beach adopt and use RCV. Eureka will start using RCV soon. RCV is now much better known than it was 20 years ago and is being seriously considered in several more jurisdictions around the state.  We have worked to have 3 bills pass the legislature to allow widespread local RCV use – 2007 AB 1294, 2016 SB 1288, 2019 SB212 – vetoed by 3 different governors! But Governor Newsom signed a narrower 2023 AB 1227 allowing its use in Santa Clara County.  

You can join for free.  You can also send in a little (or a lot of) money to help the movement if you can.  If you have time and energy you can get involved in a campaign or education work.  If you want to get our quarterly newsletter and monthly updates, you can do that too, at no cost.