CRV was founded in August 2005.
Math PhD Warren D. Smith has been studying election methods since 1999, conducted the world's largest computer simulations of election methods, and wrote an (85%-complete) book on them...
Jan Kok (pronounced "John Koke") is an engineer and political activist in Fort Collins, CO. He has been studying and promoting better voting methods since 2000 and discovered a way to conduct Range Voting elections on existing voting machines, thus making Range Voting highly practical for public elections.