Adams v. Klapper

OPINION OF THE COURT

James H. Shaw, Jr., J.

This is a proceeding brought pursuant to article 16 of the Election Law to declare invalid the designating petition purporting to nominate Molly Klapper for the public office of *52Judge of the Civil Court for the Fifth Municipal District in the September 14, 1999 primary.

While, as a general rule, a candidate’s designating petition will be invalidated on the ground that some signatures have been fraudulently obtained “only if there is a showing that the entire designating petition is ‘permeated with fraud’ (Matter of Ferraro v McNab, 60 NY2d 601, 603;…