Graziano v. Walsh

OPINION OF THE COURT

Martin Schoenfeld, J.

The most interesting of the several issues that this Election Law article 16 special proceeding raises is whether a court can invalidate a designating-petition that the court finds is permeated with fraud if the objector thereto fails to serve the candidate with notice of the proceeding in a manner reasonably calculated to reach the candidate prior to the end of the period during which the proceeding had to be commenced. This *681court concludes, reluctantly, that the law does not allow such invalidation. Other related issues, in this rather disturbing…