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PRESS ANNOUNCEMENT
IndependentVoting.org
For Immediate Release: February 21, 2012
Contact:
IndependentVoting.org -- Sarah Lyons - Director of Communications - 212-609-2824 or 917-658-9885
Local Contact -- Darnell Goldson -- 203-806-0411, [email protected]
One of the countrys leading advocates for independent voters, as well as an expert on open
primary and nonpartisan voting systems, will provide testimony to the New Haven Charter
Commission this evening.
Harry Kresky is a 1971 graduate of Columbia Law School, where he served as an editor of the
Columbia Law Review. He is currently in private practice in New York City. Kresky was
appointed by Mayor Michael Bloomberg to serve on the 2002 New York City CharterCommission and has been active in the effort to bring nonpartisan municipal elections to the City.
Attorney Kresky has served as expert counsel to independent voter movements throughout the
country and has written extensively on election reform issues. Recently he authored an op-ed in
support of open primaries in Cali fornia which appeared in the Sacramento Bee. He has also
written for the Huffington Post. He has represented independents, along with local counsel, in
federal litigation defending Idahos and South Carolinas open primary systems. He serves as
counsel to IndependentVoting.org.
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Attorney Kresky serves as Chair of the Election Law Committee of the New York County Lawyers
Association. In 2008, he organized and participated in a forum at the Association on the subject
of open primaries that was moderated by David Seifman, who covers New York City poli tics for
the New York Post.
Kresky has been actively working to bring about a filing fee alternative to New Yorks onerous
petitioning requirements for ballot access. The proposal he authored has now been adopted by
the New County Lawyers Associations Board and by the Election Law Committee of the New
York City Bar Association.
