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ONE FRAUDULENT SIGNATURE DID NOT CONSTITUTE CLEAR AND CONVINCING EVIDENCE THE DESIGNATING PETITION WAS PERMEATED BY FRAUD (THIRD DEPT).

The Third Department determined that Supreme Court properly declined to invalidate the entire designating petition after finding one signature should be invalidated:

Petitioner presented a witness who testified unequivocally that the signature on the petition attributed to her was not her own, noting that her name appears the way it does when her husband signs it. The witness’s husband also testified confirming that he had signed both his own name and that of his wife, which they both agreed was a common practice for them throughout their 40-year marriage. The subscribing witness who gathered the foregoing signatures, however, testified, with notable detail, that he recalled both the husband and the wife signing for themselves. William Nicholas, who had accompanied the subscribing witness but did not formally witness any signatures, gave similar, strikingly-specific testimony. Supreme Court credited the testimony of the husband and the wife and, while reticent to find that the subscribing witness and Nicholas had perjured themselves, rejected their version of events and thereby invalidated the subject signature. We perceive no reason not to give deference to those findings … . However, one fraudulent signature is not clear and convincing evidence that a designating petition is permeated with fraud … . Further, there was no evidence that [the candidate] herself participated in the procurement or submission of any fraudulent signature … . Matter of Overbaugh v Benoit, 2019 NY Slip Op 04261, Third Dept 5-30-19

 

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