Matthews v. Deane

GRUCCIO, A.J.S.C.

This matter arises in the course of a challenge to the sufficiency of a recall petition which led to the recall of plaintiff from his position as mayor of Atlantic City, New Jersey on March 13, 1983. The plaintiff and the defendants have made a joint application for a preliminary determination by the court of the validity or invalidity of printed signatures on recall petitions. The narrow issue facing this court is whether registered voters who printed their names on a recall petition after having previously signed their name in the cursive method on their voter registration…