Although the Board of Elections deemed 2,839 signatures invalid and noted that another 417 were allegedly signed by one person, a state judge has held that the designating petitions of a candidate for Queens borough president should not be thrown out on the basis that they are “permeated with fraud.”
In a decision Friday, Queens Supreme Court Justice Allan B. Weiss (See Profile) wrote that 15 witnesses whose names appeared on candidate Robert Schwartz’s petitions testified that they did not sign them and another witness testified that he signed the petition five times—once for himself, and four times for various family members.
