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BECAUSE THE DESIGNATING PETITIONS OF THE INITIAL CANDIDATE FOR STATE SENATE WERE INVALIDATED, THE PETITION TO VALIDATE CERTIFICATES OF SUBSTITUTION FOR ANOTHER CANDIDATE SHOULD NOT HAVE BEEN GRANTED (SECOND DEPT).

The Second Department, reversing Supreme Court, determined the petition to validate certificates of substitution for a candidate (Sammut) for State Senate after the designating petitions of the initial candidate (LaLota) were invalidated should not have been granted. Because there was no valid designating petition, substitution was barred:

“[P]ursuant to Election Law § 6-148(1), a valid designating petition is a prerequisite to the creation of a vacancy” … . Where a designating petition is ” invalid,'” another candidate may not be substituted by a committee to fill vacancies … . On the prior appeal, we specifically granted the appellants’ petition to invalidate LaLota’s designating petitions. * * *

Moreover, Election Law § 3-200(6) provides: “An election commissioner shall not be a candidate for any elective office which he [or she] would not be entitled to hold under the provisions of [Election Law article 3], unless he [or she] has ceased by resignation or otherwise, to be commissioner prior to his [or her] nomination or designation therefor. Otherwise such nomination or designation shall be null and void” … . Where an original nomination or designation is void, no vacancy is created which can be filled by substitution … .  Matter of Ferrandino v Sammut, 2020 NY Slip Op 04229, Second Dept 7-23-20

 

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