Insofar as the rules and past practices of the Town of Callicoon Republican Committee preclude a candidate from proceeding by designating petition to obtain a position on the ballot (Election Law, §§ 103, 134), they are inconsistent with the spirit and intent of the Election Law. Here, petitioner has obtained designating petitions that contain more than the requisite number of signatures (Election Law, § 136, subd 6), and the validity of these petitions has...
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