Checchia v. Tioga County Board of Elections

OPINION OF THE COURT

Robert S. Rose, J.

In June of 1996, petitioners circulated designating petitions by which they sought to qualify as candidates for the office of member of the Republican County Committee in various election districts in Tioga County to be elected at the primary election to be held in just over two weeks on September 10, 1996. When respondent Board of Elections declared certain other candidates to be the unopposed winners because there were no other candidates of the same sex running for those positions and invalidated petitioners’ designating petitions, petitioners…