Le Sawyer v. Board of Elections

Petitioner in a proceeding instituted pursuant to section 330 of the Election Law. seeks to have declared insufficient, invalid and illegal a petition purporting to designate one Sherwood B. Speed as the candidate of the Republican party for the office of Surrogate of Columbia County at the forthcoming primary election. Petitioner has filed a designating petition for the same office in the same primary election. The petition contains 1,288 signatures. Concededly a minimum of 458 signatures is required by subdivision 2 of section 136 of the Election Law. The designating petition contains…