Kepert v. Tullo

*827Pursuant to Election Law § 6-132 (2), each sheet of a designating petition must have appended to it, at the bottom, a signed statement of a witness that states, inter alia, the number of signatures witnessed (see Matter of Sheldon v Sperber, 45 NY2d 788, 789 [1978]). Thus, because the stating of the number of signatures witnessed “is a matter of the legislatively mandated content of the [designating] petition, i.e., a matter of substance and not of form . . . [failure] to include the prescribed information is fatal” (Matter of Frome v Board of Elections of Nassau County, 57 NY2d 741, 742…