Case Name: In the Matter of Irma Rodriguez, Respondent, v. Moses S. Harris, Appellant, et al., Respondents; In the Matter of Moses S. Harris, Appellant, v. Anthony Sadowski et al., Constituting the Board of Elections of the City of New York, et al., Respondents
Court: New York Court of Appeals
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1980-09-02
Citations: 51 N.Y.2d 737
Docket Number: 
Parties: In the Matter of Irma Rodriguez, Respondent, v Moses S. Harris, Appellant, et al., Respondents. In the Matter of Moses S. Harris, Appellant, v Anthony Sadowski et al., Constituting the Board of Elections of the City of New York, et al., Respondents.
Judges: Chief Judge Cooke and Judges Jasen, Gabrielli, Jones and Wachtler concur; Judge Fuchsberg concurs in result in a separate memorandum in which Judge Meyer concurs.
Reporter: New York Reports
Volume: 51
Pages: 737–739

Head Matter:
In the Matter of Irma Rodriguez, Respondent, v Moses S. Harris, Appellant, et al., Respondents. In the Matter of Moses S. Harris, Appellant, v Anthony Sadowski et al., Constituting the Board of Elections of the City of New York, et al., Respondents.
Argued August 27, 1980;
decided September 2, 1980
APPEARANCES OF COUNSEL
Harry Kresky for appellant.
H. Spencer Kupperman for Irma Rodriguez, respondent.

Opinion:
OPINION OF THE COURT
Memorandum.
The order of the Appellate Division should be reversed, without costs.
It was the factual determination of Special Term that there was no proof of forgery , or fraud or that the candidate himself had participated in or had any knowledge of the irregularities in the designating petition. In this circumstance the conclusion that, among 4,336. signatures held valid by the Board of Elections (out of a total 6,000 signatures), 9 signatures were invalid because they had not been taken by the notary or by the subscribing witness is insufficient as a matter of law to establish fraud as to the method or on the part of the persons collecting the signatures or a pattern of irregularities, such as in either instance could be said to have permeated the entire designating petition.