Case ID: misc_78/html/0086-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "\n      Chester, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

In the Matter of the Objections to the Independent Certificate Filed Purporting to Nominate Andrew Archibald, Jr., for Assessor of the City of Cohoes.
    (Supreme Court, Albany Special Term,
    October, 1912.)
    Election Law — certificate of independent nomination — certificate, when declared void.
    Where a certificate of independent nomination contains 549 names on 70 separate sheets, of which names 27 are of persons not registered and 9 are duplications, the duplicated names appearing on 10 separate sheets containing 88 others of which five per cent of the names are fraudulent, leaving but 416 on the certificate to be counted, • it must be declared void.
    Objections to a certificate of independent nomination.
    Charles B. Templeton, for objectors.
    Walter E. Wertime, for respondents.
   Chester, J.

The certificate contains 549 names on 70 separate sheets. Of these, 27 are names of persons not registered and 9 are duplications. The duplicated names appear on ten separate sheets containing 88 other names on each of which five per centum of the names are fraudulent.

Applying the principles stated in the Matter of William Baillee, candidate for mayor, decided herewith (ante page 84), there must he deducted 27 names of persons not registered, 18 for duplicated names and 88 under the five per centum rule, a total of 133, leaving but 416 upon the certificate to he counted.

The certificate must he declared void.

Ordered accordingly.