Court Opinion

ID: 5888637
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-01-13 02:40:46.507508+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:45:16.115700
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Kupferman, J. P., and Kassal, J.,
dissent in a memorandum as follows by Kupferman, J. P. I dissent and would affirm. While ordinarily the fact that 70% of the signatures were invalid would not compel a determination that the irregularities permeated the designating petition with fraud, the fact that the candidate and his wife, as well as a substantial number of his signature gatherers, ignored subpoenas and did not come to the hearing, would provide a sound basis for Special Term to reach the conclusion that it did. (See, Matter of Ruiz v McKenna, 40 NY2d 815.)