Williams v. Salerno

ALTIMARI, Circuit Judge:

A century ago the little known American writer R.L. Sharpe made the following poetic observation:

Each is given a bag of tools,

A shapeless mass,

A book of rules;

And each must make Ere life is flown,

A stumbling-block

Or a stepping-stone.

In the instant case we are presented with two Commissioners of the Westchester County Board of Elections, Marion Oldi and Antonia D’Apice, who were given the public trust, a stack of registration applica*325tions, and the New York Election Law. From these elements Commissioners Oldi and D’Apice have constructed an impasse so firmly rooted in an…