Matter of Frome v. Bd. of Elections of Nassau County

OPINION OF THE COURT

Memorandum.

The order of the Appellate Division should be reversed, without costs, and the case remitted to Supreme Court for its consideration of the application of respondents in our court for a direction to the board of elections to provide the enrolled Democratic voters in Nassau County an opportunity to write in the names of candidates for the offices at issue (cf. Matter of Brown v Ulster County Bd. of Elections, 48 NY2d 614).

The designation of the “city or town” in the statement of a witness to a designating petition is a matter of the legislatively mandated content…