Lisa v. Board of Elections

Memorandum. Even if we were to assume that the campaign practices complained of constituted frauds or irregularities within subdivision 2 of section 330 of the Election Law, petitioner failed to sustain his burden of proving a causal connection between the alleged incidents of campaign fraud and the outcome of the primary election in question.

As to the 179 invalid or suspect votes found by Special Term, petitioner did not meet the burden of proving that the irregularities were of such a nature as to establish the probability that the result of the election would be changed by a shift in, or…