In re Valone

Appellants filed a nominating petition consisting of several sheets stapled together. Instead of pursuing the first method of authentication authorized by section 135 of the Election Law, by having a notary certify that all the persons who signed the petition, naming them in his certificate, swear that they signed *604the same and that the statements therein contained were true, they pursued the second method authorized by section 135 and had the person who secured the signatures himself swear that the persons signing, giving then number and not naming them, signed their names in his presence and…