Leemhuis v. Scranton

OPINION OF THE COURT

Loren N. Brown, J.

This is a proceeding brought pursuant to CPLR article 78 to annul a determination of respondents, which treated the *549petitioner’s application for enrollment in a political party as either a change of enrollment (Election Law § 5-304), or as an application for a transfer of registration and enrollment (Election Law § 5-208), and to direct the respondents to accept the petitioner’s application for enrollment as a new registration, effective immediately upon acceptance of the registration, rather than after the general election.

In February of 1988, the…