63 Misc. 2d 119 | N.Y. Sup. Ct. | 1970
Petitioners, candidates for Community School Board members, District No. 22 Kings County, at the election held on March 19, 1970, seek an order declaring such election to be invalid and directing the Board of Education and the Board of Elections to hold a new election for community school board members for the district. The motion of petitioners, G-erald P. Hecht and Joseph Massina, made at the hearing hereof to sever and discontinue the proceeding as to them, is granted.
Petitioners assert that many irregularities occurred during the election. In substance, it is claimed that electioneering was permitted at the polls; ballots were distributed by the Election Board Inspectors with campaign material enclosed; electors were not permitted to vote; the Police Department did not report the amount of votes cast; ballot boxes were delivered opened to the central counting place; confusion existed at the counting, with ballots and ballot stub numbers strewn over the floor of the premises; and the counting of the ballots was disorganized and chaotic.
The provisions of the Election Law with respect to judicial proceedings govern the -election of community school board members (Education Law, § 2590-c, subd. 6, par. [31]). Under