In re Kaplan

Section 135 of the Election Law provides that a designating petition may be authenticated as to signatures by a subscribing witness who swears, “ I know each of the voters whose names aré subscribed to the above sheet of the foregoing petition.”

Without attempting to define the extent, if any, to which the law requires the subscribing witness to have prior acquaintance with the signers of designating petitions, and assuming that such a witness may authenticate signatures where he has acted on information affording him reasonable knowledge as to the identity of the signers, we hold that the…