By Dillon, J.P.; Nelson, Roman, Ford, JJ. IN THE MATTER OF CHEVONE T. SANON, app, v. ANDY J. MARTE, ET AL., res — (Index No. 511124/22) In a proceeding pursuant to Election Law §16 102, inter alia, to validate a petition designating Chevone T. Sanon as a candidate in a primary election to be held on June 28, 2022, for the nomination of the Democratic Party as its candidate for the public office of Judge of the Civil Court of the City of New York from the County of Kings, for assigned vacancy 4, Chevone T. Sanon appeals from a final order of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Peter P. Sweeney, J.), dated May 11, 2022. The final order denied the petition, inter alia, to validate the designating petition and dismissed the proceeding. ORDERED that the final order is affirmed, without costs or disbursements. The petitioner, Chevone T. Sanon, submitted a petition designating her as a candidate in a primary election to be held on June 28, 2022, for the nomination of the Democratic Party as its candidate for the public office of Judge of the Civil Court of the City of New York from the County of Kings, for assigned vacancy 4. Four thousand signatures were required for the petitioner to become a candidate on the ballot for this public office, and she submitted a 10-volume designating petition that reportedly contained 8,926 signatures. Andy J. Marte and Neal Forman filed general and specific objections to the designating petition, asserting that nearly 8,000 of the signatures were invalid. On or about April 16, 2022, before the Board of Elections in the City of New York (hereinafter the BOE) ruled on the objections, the petitioner commenced this proceeding, inter alia, to validate her designating petition. Thereafter, the BOE issued a preliminary clerk’s report on the specifications of objections, finding that, of the 8,812 signatures contained in the designating petition, 6,109 were invalid, or “as specified” (AS), and 2,703 of the signatures were valid. The BOE’s Commissioners confirmed this report. On April 29, 2022, the petitioner requested an adjournment of this proceeding, inter alia, to validate her designating petition to decide whether she wished to proceed, which the Supreme Court granted. At the same time, the court offered to direct the BOE to remain open on the weekend so that the petitioner could access and review the invalidated signatures, but the petitioner declined. On May 3, 2022, the petitioner indicated that she wished to proceed and requested a line-by-line review of signatures invalidated by the BOE. That request was granted and, on May 4, 2022, special referees began a line-by-line review.
