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Status: activeType: 📢 advocacyCountry: United States Website: represent.us
Status active
Type 📢 advocacy
Country United States
Website represent.us
Concepts Preferential Voting Radical Transparency
Last activity 2026-08-21 dod
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RepresentUs

RepresentUs is a US nonpartisan anti-corruption organisation co-founded in 2012 by Josh Silver and Joshua Graham Lynn,1 structured as a 501(c)(4) advocacy group with a 501(c)(3) education fund. It describes itself as "America's leading nonpartisan grassroots organization fighting for a government accountable to the people."

Its reform portfolio spans ranked-choice voting and open primaries, independent citizen redistricting commissions, campaign finance limits and disclosure, and lobbying restrictions — packaged originally around the American Anti-Corruption Act, model legislation drafted with input from across the political spectrum. The organisation works through volunteer chapters and ballot-measure campaigns rather than endorsing candidates, deliberately pairing progressive, moderate, and conservative supporters.

Its ballot-measure record includes supporting New York City's 2019 adoption of ranked-choice voting, Alaska's 2020 top-four primary and RCV measure, and Nevada's 2022 top-five RCV initiative, alongside anti-gerrymandering wins in Colorado, Michigan, Missouri, Ohio, and Utah in 2018. Earlier, its support helped establish Maine's ranked-choice voting system.[^maine]

See also

  1. "Josh Silver and Joshua Graham Lynn co-founded the group in 2012." RepresentUs, Wikipedia. ↩

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