Felsen v. Scaringe

OPINION OF THE COURT

Memorandum.

The order of the Appellate Division should be reversed, without costs, and the petition to invalidate the nominating petition should be denied.

Respondents’ nominating petition included the names of three persons for appointment to a committee to fill vacancies, as is required by law (Election Law, § 6-140, subd 1). Two of the named appointees, however, did not register as voters in the Town of Guilderland, the pertinent political unit, until, respectively, one day and one week after the first day that petitions could be circulated. Having registered in time for…