Opinion
August 18, 1998
Appeal from the Supreme Court, Westchester County (DiBlasi, J.).
Ordered that the judgment is affirmed, without costs or disbursements.
The Supreme Court properly invalidated those signatures which were witnessed by notaries public who had neither taken the oaths of the signators nor obtained any statements from them as to the truth of the statements to which they subscribed their names ( see, Matter of Helfand v. Meisser, 22 N.Y.2d 762; Matter of Donnelly v. Dowd, 12 N.Y.2d 651; Matter of Boyle v. New York City Bd. of Elections, 185 A.D.2d 953; Matter of Zunno v. Fein, 175 A.D.2d 935; Matter of Andolfi v. Rohl, 83 A.D.2d 890). Since the invalidation of these signatures results in the number of valid signatures falling below the 287 required to qualify as a candidate for the Independence Party, the Supreme Court properly invalidated the designating petition.
Mangano, P.J., Thompson, Pizzuto, Krausman and Goldstein, JJ., concur.