On March 11, Harry Kresky died at the age of 79. He was a long-time ballot access attorney and a leading member of the New Alliance Party, which existed from 1982 until 1994. He was also a Board Member of the Coalition for Free & Open Elections (COFOE), representing Independent Voting, a successor organization to the New Alliance Party.
Kresky and his fellow New Alliance Party colleague Gary Sinawski helped the New Alliance Party places its presidential nominee, Lenora Fulani, on the ballot of all 50 states in 1988. In 2004, Kresky was a ballot access attorney for Ralph Nader, when Nader’s ballot position was challenged in two dozen states.
Kresky is the second board member of COFOE to die this month; the first was Jim Hedges of the Prohibition Party.
What are the ages of your remaining board members? Consider adding alternates if you don’t have them yet?
WHEN WILL COFOE BRING UP 1954 BROWN V BD OF ED IN A BALLOT ACCESS CASE ???
The AZ bot needs be reprogrammed so it knows Brown has nothing to do with this.
Richard, The crAZy bot has been told before to show some respect on memoriam threads like this. This is no place for the raving and drooling off-med madness of Thomas Jones.
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INDEE B.M. ???
Condolonces to surviving family and friends.
How many people are involved in COFOE?
I don’t think it’s a mass membership organization, or even trying to be one. I could be wrong though.
The COFOE Board has representatives from the Libertarian, Green, Constitution, Forward, Socialist, American Solidarity Parties; and Fairvote; and Independent Voting. It had one from the Prohibition Party until earlier this month.
Yeah, does not sound like mass membership.
http://www.cofoe.org
COFOE WEBSITE
Independent voting pushes top two.
Generally no one pushes top-two anymore. The former proponents now push top-four or top-five combined with ranked choice voting. No state has adopted a top-two system since California did so in June 2010. The top-two idea has been rejected by voters in Arizona, Florida, Oregon twice, and South Dakota. It did get a majority in Florida but it didn’t get the required 60%. Leaders of the California tpo-two movement have recently said California should switch to top-four.
It’s still a system that’s worse for third parties than what most states have now.
I am sorry to hear of Mr. Kresky’s passing and offer my condolences to his family and friends.
“Independent voting pushes top two.”
Which is irrational. Top two locks out independent candidates pretty thoroughly.
I suppose that there are independent votes who don’t like having to vote in partisan primaries. But, to favor top-x as a remedy doesn’t help independent candidates in the long run.
I regret to learn of the deaths of Harry Kresky and Jim Hedges. Both were good men dedicated to fair ballot access laws.
Top X further tilts the playing field.