The Albany city GOP — in the person of mayoral candidate Nathan Lebron — is suing in state Supreme Court to invalidate a bunch of the petition signatures filed by all four Democrats seeking to run for citywide office also on the Independence Party line.
Most interesting, however, is what exactly the GOP is alleging happened. Or didn’t.
In its court filing — currently before acting state Supreme Court Justice Richard M. Platkin — the GOP alleges that when Engstrom, an enrolled Democrat, collected petition signatures from Independence Party voters, he did not require signatories to swear an oath.
Use the above link to read the entire article by Jordan Carleo-Evangelist of the timesunion.com.
Update
ALBANY City Republicans succeeded Thursday in bouncing four Democrats including Mayor Jerry Jennings from the Independence Party ballot line after arguing that one of the candidates failed to administer a required oath to voters who signed his ballot petitions.
Acting state Supreme Court Justice Gerald W. Connelly agreed in an 11-page decision that struck Jennings, city Treasurer Betty Barnette and two other candidates for citywide office, Leif Engstrom and Carolyn McLaughlin, from the minor party line.
Michael H. Drucker
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