Jonas v. Velez

OPINION OF THE COURT

Memorandum.

The order of the Appellate Division should be reversed and the judgment of Supreme Court, New York County, reinstated, without costs.

Essential to the integrity of the petition process is the subscribing witness’s statement authorized by Election Law § 6-132 and particularly that portion of it which contains the total number of signatures on the petition sheet to which it is appended. We have, therefore, consistently held that alteration of the statement which is unexplained and uninitialed will result in the invalidation of the petition sheet (Matter of Sheldon…