Donoghue v. Power

This is a judicial review of an application to set aside the ministerial act of the Board of Elections of Monroe County in rejecting as invalid the independent nominating petitions of the “ Taxpayers’ Party” on the sole ground that the petitioners failed to set forth, opposite the signers’ names and in the date column, either in whole or in part, the date when each signer affixed his signature to the nominating petitions.

The application has been brought by one Dorothy Donoghue, an aggrieved party under section 330 of the Election Law, and one of five proposed candidates named in the disputed…