Court Opinion

ID: 5221443
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-01-06 16:34:53.765951+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:27:31.453600
License: Public Domain

Pee Curiam:
Section 123 of the Election Law (Consol. Laws, chap. 17 [Laws of 1909, chap, 22], as amd. by Laws of' 1911, chap. 649) provides for the qualification of the electors signing independent nominations. Such an independent nomination must he subscribed by the required number .of such electors, each of , whom shall add. to his signature his. place of residence and make oath that he is an elector and has truly stated his residence. But it is not required that he shall have been registered at the timé he signs the certificate! The last clause of. that section then provides for the counting of the persons sign-ing such a certificate of nomination, and" it is there provided that “the name'of no person signing an independent certificate of nomination shall be counted unless such person shall on one of the days of registration in such year be registered as a qualified elector, * *■ *. ' For the purpose of ascertaining, whether thé person whose name appears on an independent certificate of nomination signed such certificate the affidavit or testimony ■of such person that he did not sign such certificate shall be prima facie evidence that he did not sign such certificate.”
The intent seems clear that it is not necessary that the elector signing á certificate of nomination.shall at the time of signing such certificate have been registered;, and it will answer the requirements of the statute if, before his name" is counted, he shall have been duly registered.
‘As it is .conceded that this certificate of nomination was not tendered for filing or filed twenty days before the election, as required by section 128 of the Election Law, it follows *685that the court below was right in sustaining the objection to the certificate, and the order should, therefore, be affirmed.
Present — Ingraham, P. J„ Laughlin, Clarke, Miller and Dowling, JJ.
Order affirmed.