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Krance v. Chiaramonte

SUPREME COURT OF THE S TATE OF NEW YORKAPPELLATE DIVISION : SECOND JUDICIAL DEPARTMENT
Aug 17, 2011
2011-07065 (N.Y. App. Div. Aug. 17, 2011)

Opinion

2011-07065 Index No. 5216/11

08-17-2011

In the Matter of Shira Krance, appellant, v. Paul S. Chiaramonte, et al., respondents.


, J.P.

JOSEPH COVELLO

RUTH C. BALKIN

LEONARD B. AUSTIN

SANDRA L. SGROI, JJ.

DECISION & ORDER

In a proceeding pursuant to Election Law § 16-102, inter alia, to invalidate petitions designating Paul S. Chiaramonte as a candidate in a primary election to be held on September 13, 2011, for the nomination of the Independence Party as its candidate for the public office of Family Court Judge, Rockland County, Shira Krance appeals from so much of a final order of the Supreme Court, Rockland County (Garvey, J.), entered August 5, 2011, as, after a hearing, denied that branch of her petition which was to invalidate the petitions designating Paul S. Chiaramonte as a candidate in the primary election to be held on September 13, 2011, for the nomination of the Independence Party as its candidate for the public office of Family Court Judge, Rockland County.

ORDERED that the final order is affirmed insofar as appealed from, without costs or disbursements.

Election Law § 6-134, which pertains to designating petitions, states, in pertinent part, "(10) [t]he provisions of this section shall be liberally construed, not inconsistent with substantial compliance thereto." Here, the cover sheets of the designating petitions, as they related to Paul S. Chiaramonte (hereinafter the candidate), substantially complied with the requirements of the Election Law and the regulations of the New York State Board of Elections, to allow for the Rockland County Board of Elections (hereinafter the Board of Elections) to cumulatively count the signatures within the subject designating petitions to reach the required minimum number of valid signatures (see Election Law § 6-134[10]; 9 NYCRR 6215.6[a]; see also Matter of Siems v Lite, 307 AD2d 1016; Matter of Most v Walker, 297 AD2d 356, 357). In any event, the candidate was not notified of, and given the opportunity to cure, the purported defect, as required (see Matter of Pearse v New York City Bd. of Elections, 10 AD3d 461).

We do not reach the Board of Elections' contention pertaining to the invalidation of the candidate's Working Families Party designating petition, as it is not properly before this Court.

SKELOS, J.P., COVELLO, BALKIN, AUSTIN and SGROI, JJ., concur.

ENTER:

Matthew G. Kiernan

Clerk of the Court


Summaries of

Krance v. Chiaramonte

SUPREME COURT OF THE S TATE OF NEW YORKAPPELLATE DIVISION : SECOND JUDICIAL DEPARTMENT
Aug 17, 2011
2011-07065 (N.Y. App. Div. Aug. 17, 2011)
Case details for

Krance v. Chiaramonte

Case Details

Full title:In the Matter of Shira Krance, appellant, v. Paul S. Chiaramonte, et al.…

Court:SUPREME COURT OF THE S TATE OF NEW YORKAPPELLATE DIVISION : SECOND JUDICIAL DEPARTMENT

Date published: Aug 17, 2011

Citations

2011-07065 (N.Y. App. Div. Aug. 17, 2011)