Markel v. Smolinski

Order unanimously reversed, without costs, and petition dismissed. Memorandum: On an appeal from an order of Special Term validating petitioner Markel’s Conservative Party designating petition for Erie County Court Judge, appellants argue that the designating petition is invalid because only one of the five people named in the petition to the committee to fill vacancies.was a duly enrolled Conservative Party member. Subdivision 1 of section 6-132 of the Election Law states that a candidate’s designating petition shall contain a provision appointing at least three persons to act as a committee…