White v. McNab

Memorandum. The order of the Appellate Division should be affirmed.

The designating petition contained 1,925 signatures; 1,349 were required to validate. The deletion of 468 signatures at Special Term is not challenged on appeal. We conclude that another 45 must be stricken for error on the part of a subscribing witness with respect to his election district (cf. Matter of Rutter v Coveney, 38 NY2d 993). From the record supplemented by representations on oral argument we have also concluded that an additional 200 signatures must be eliminated because of undated and uninitialed alterations in…