Order unanimously affirmed, without costs.
Memorandum:
Subdivision 3 of section 6-138 of the Election Law requires that the party name selected by an independent body making a nomination shall not include the name or part of the name of that stated on a previously filed independent nominating petition. It also prohibits the use of any name which would "create the possibility of confusion". The manifest purpose of this statute is "`to prevent all possibility...
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