Hunter v. Orange County Board of Elections

In a proceeding pursuant to Election Law § 16-102, inter alia, to set aside the results of a primary election held on September 9, 2008 for the nomination of the Independence Party as its candidate for the public office of Surrogate, County of Orange, and to declare Stephen R. Hunter the rightfully-nominated candidate in that primary election or, alternatively, to direct that a new primary election be held for that nomination, Stephen R. Hunter appeals from a final order of the Supreme Court, Orange County (Owen, J.), dated October 1, 2008, which, after a hearing, in effect, granted that…