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DESIGNATING PETITION SHOULD HAVE BEEN INVALIDATED, OFFICE SOUGHT NOT SUFFICIENTLY DESCRIBED (SECOND DEPT).

The Second Department determined Supreme Court should have invalidated a designating petition because the office which was sought by the candidate was not sufficiently described:

Supreme Court erred in finding that the designating petition sufficiently described the office Larsen sought. “Election Law § 6-132(1) requires that each sheet of a designating petition state the public office or party position sought by the candidate'” … . Since many public offices and party positions are susceptible to a variety of descriptions, the “description will be deemed adequate so long as the petition, read as a whole, is sufficiently informative . . . so as to preclude any reasonable probability of confusing or deceiving the signers, voters or board of elections'” … .

Here, the candidates’ designating petition described the public office Larsen sought as “Town Board, Town of East Hampton,” but failed to specify the position Larsen sought to fill. Pursuant to Town Law § 60(1), every town board consists of “the supervisor” and “the town councilmen.” These are different public offices, and the candidates elected to each office serve terms of different lengths. By failing to specify the position Larsen sought, the candidates’ designating petition was not sufficiently informative so as to preclude the possibility of confusion … . Accordingly, the Supreme Court should have granted that branch of the petition which was to invalidate so much of the designating petition as pertained to Larsen. Matter of Bragman v Larsen, 2017 NY Slip Op 06267, Second Dept 8-23-17

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