Sutherland v. Board of Elections

Petitioner seeks .to have his name placed on the primary ballot as a candidate for member of the Democratic state committee. The person elected such state committeeman from the sixteenth assembly district in Kings county in the primaries in *4581918, died in the spring of this year. The petitioner seeks to be chosen to fill the vacancy thus created. He alleges he has been duly elected to fill snch vacancy by the members of the Democratic county committee of the said assembly district.

The Election Law provides that state committeemen shall be elected biennially in each even numbered year. §…