Rancourt v. Kennedy

*655To gain positions on the primary election ballot as candidates for the nomination of the Independence Party as its candidates for various town and county public offices, the potential candidates who circulated the combined designating petition that is the subject of the instant proceeding (hereinafter collectively the potential candidates) were required to obtain 28 valid signatures on their combined designating petition, representing 5% of the enrolled Independence Party voters in the Town of Beekman (see Election Law § 6-136 [2]). The subscribing witnesses for the potential candidates’…