About Us
Frequently Asked Questions
Ranked Choice Voting (RCV) allows voters to rank candidates by preference instead of choosing just one. It works like this:
1st Choice: The candidate you love.
2nd choice: The candidate you like.
3rd or 4th choice: The candidate you like slightly less.
5th choice: The candidate you can stand.
You can rank up to 5 candidates, as many or as few as you’d like.
- More choice, more power!
- Even if your favorite candidate doesn’t win, you still have a say in who’s elected.
- You can vote your conscience without worrying that you’re wasting your vote or electing a candidate you don’t like.
- Ranking a 2nd, 3rd, etc. choice will never hurt your favorite candidate.
Ranked Choice Voting is easy! Instead of choosing just one candidate, you can rank them, from your first choice to your fifth.
Find the name of your first choice and fill in the oval next to their name in the “1st Choice” column. Then find the name of your second choice, and fill in the oval next to their name in the “2nd Choice” column. Continue until you have ranked all the candidates you choose to rank, up to five.
Your vote will count only once for that candidate, so it doesn’t help their chances of winning. If they are defeated in a round, you don’t have any backup choices to be counted in later rounds. It does not help your favorite candidate to rank them more than once.
Team

Luke Hayes
Campaign Manager

Sean Dugar
Education Campaign Program Director

Abi Inman
Digital Director

Debbie Louis
Lead Organizer, Haitian Creole Outreach (Citywide)

Nicole Adams
Organizer (Bronx)

Tiff Berruti
Organizer (Manhattan), Youth Outreach (Citywide)

Sami Disu
Organizer (Bronx), African Immigrant Outreach (Citywide)

Adam Friedman
Organizer (Manhattan), GOTV Coordination (Citywide)

Shannon O’Neill Fonseca
Organizer (Manhattan), Spanish Outreach (Citywide)

Erica Fu
Organizer (Queens), AAPI Outreach (Citywide)

Walter Goldberg
Organizer (Brooklyn)

Stephanie Hunt
Organizer (Queens)

Evan Mastronardi
Organizer (Bronx)

Willy Nandi
Organizer (Queens), Bangla & Urdu Outreach (Citywide)

Austin Tooker
Organizer (Brooklyn)

Karen Wharton
Organizer (Brooklyn)

Nicole Yearwood
Organizer (Manhattan)

Christopher Zieja
Organizer (Manhattan), French & Spanish Outreach (Citywide)
RTV NYC Board
Additional Contact Emails
- comms@rankthevotenyc.org
- brooklynorganizer@rankthevotenyc.org
- manhattanorganizer@rankthevotenyc.org
- bronxorganizer@rankthevotenyc.org
- statenislandorganizer@rankthevotenyc.org
Community Partners
- African American Clery & Elected Officials
- Achievement First Schools
- The Black Institute
- Bronx NAACP
- Brooklyn Community Foundation
- Brooklyn Public Library
- Center for Law and Social Justice
- CHHAYA Community Development Corp.
- Chinese American Planning Council
- Citizens Union
- Citymeals on Wheels
- Common Cause New York
- Community Voices Heard
- Dominicanos USA
- Educational Alliance
- F.Y. Eye
- Grow NY
- Latino Association of Restaurant and Bars
- Minkwon Community Action Center
- Mothers on the Move
- New York State Restaurant Association
- National Supermarkets Association
- North East Queens NAACP
- New York Communities for Change
- New York Immigration Coalition
- Northwest Bronx Community and Clergy Coalition
- Queens Public Library
- United Neighborhood Houses
- YMCA of Greater New York