MATTER OF RITTERSPORN v. Sadowski

OPINION OF THE COURT

Memorandum.

The order of the Appellate Division should be affirmed, without costs.

We have examined appellant’s challenges to the designating petition based on several specified grounds and find them to be without merit. In particular we reject his contention that the presumption of regularity which attaches to the acts of a commissioner of deeds as a public officer should be inapplicable as a matter of law to statements of a commissioner of deeds who is the candidate named in the designating petition on which his statements appear (see Election Law, § 6-132, subd 3).

Appellan…