Opinion
Argued August 26, 1985
Decided August 28, 1985
Appeal from the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the Third Judicial Department, Edward S. Conway, J.
Dennis B. Schlenker for appellant-respondent.
Paul M. Whitaker for respondent-appellant.
MEMORANDUM.
The order of the Appellate Division should be affirmed, without costs.
The Appellate Division correctly found that the failure of several witnesses to include their proper residence addresses and the town or city in which they reside (Election Law § 6-132), the inclusion by several individual signers of improper residence addresses, towns, election districts and wards (Election Law § 6-130), and the uncontroverted evidence that additions were made to witness statements after they were signed and not in the witnesses' presence ( see, Matter of Jonas v Velez, 65 N.Y.2d 954 [decided herewith]; Matter of Sheldon v Sperber, 45 N.Y.2d 788) requires that 253 of the designating petition's 528 signatures be stricken, leaving an insufficient number of signatures to validate the petition. Thus, we need not reach the issue of the sufficiency of the description of the public office being sought by respondent or the assertions that fraud and irregularity permeated the petition-gathering process.
Chief Judge WACHTLER and Judges JASEN, MEYER, SIMONS, KAYE, ALEXANDER and TITONE concur in memorandum.
On appeal by respondent Lalor, order affirmed, without costs. Cross appeal by petitioner dismissed, without costs, upon the ground that the cross appellant is not a party aggrieved (CPLR 5511).