260 A.D. 893 | N.Y. App. Div. | 1940
[Affd., 284 N. Y. 164.] This proceeding under the summary powers granted by section 330 of the Election Law to the Supreme Court is to determine the legality of the nominating petitions for Presidential Electors, United States Senator and Representatives-at-Large of the Communist party. The petitioners purport to have more than fifty electors in each county of the State and more than 40,000 in the entire State. Objections were filed. (Election Law, § 142.) The Special Term (Murray, J.) has determined that of the 211 signatures purporting to be those of the electors in Franklin county, five are non-resident of that county; four did not register and “ the signatures of 185 of the persons appearing as signers on said nominating petition were obtained in said county of Franklin by fraud, misrepresentation, and concealment as to the purport of said petition, and the signatures appearing on said petition were obtained in an illegal and fraudulent manner and through misrepresentation and concealment ” and that less than fifty electors residing in the county of Franklin have signed the petition. That of the 200 signatures purporting to be those of electors residing in Greene county, nine were not registered, one had been convicted of a felony, one did not properly state his residence, four names were written by others than the purported signatories, two were under twenty-one years of age and 154 signatures were obtained