Order unanimously reversed without costs and petition dismissed.
Memorandum:
A designating petition is not invalid because a candidate uses a familiar form of a proper first name instead of the proper name used on his voter registration form (cf. Election Law § 6-134 [7]). There was sufficient evidence to prove that candidate "Jerry Dalton" was one and the same person as registered voter "Gerald F. Dalton" of the same address. Moreover, there has...
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