WPCNR CAMPAIGN 2007. By John F. Bailey. August 1, 2007, UPDATED 10 AM EDT: Candyce Corcoran told the CitizeNetReporter last night that Board of Elections Commissioners Carolee Sunderland and Reginald LaFayette will rule on the validity or invalidity of the Democratic Primary Challenger’s petitions “within a couple of days.”

Sample Petition Taken from Westchester County Board of Elections website, shows circled area that Corcoran's petitions did not fill out based on information told the candidate by a Board of Elections employee, Corcoran says.

The candidate learned through Registered letters from the Democratic Party Leadership in White Plains that her petitions lacked the information of city and county filled in on the “Witness Identification Information” line. Corcoran is particularly annoyed because she had asked a Board of Elections official, if she should fill in that line, and had been told “No, that is for the Notary.”

According to Corcoran this morning, the Board of Elections official told her about June 12, when she asked if she had to fill in the Witness Identification Information, he told her "anything below your signature (in the Statement of Witness Section), you do not have to fill out."

She explained to WPCNR that she did not need a Notary to validae her petition because she was a registered Democrat.

Corcoran said Steve Levy, a Board of Elections Deputy Commissioner told her Sunderland and Lafayette would rule shortly on whether the alleged Board of Elections minsinformation would cost her her candidacy.

Asked if she would explore legal remedies, Corcoran said attorneys had advised her that filing for the necessary show cause orders and affidavitts required and paying the court fees would cost several thousand dollars. Corcoran said at this time she was not going to do that.

Corcoran finds the challenge absurd since she gathered all the signatures herself, and listed her home as White Plains in the “Statement of Witness” Section.

Another candidate, choosing not to be identified was going to the Board of Elections to get a ruling on their petitions to avoid a possible similar situation.

Corcoran, in addition, bitterly said she had pointed out unreadable signatures, and signatures without dates on other candidates’ petitions as being irregularities, but had chosen not to file objections because she felt the Democratic Voters should not be deprived of the opportunity to choose candidates.

Sixty-seven pages of signatures approaching 1,300 names, personally gathered by Corcoran stand to be thrown out on the “technicality,” should the Commissioners choose to do so, which would deny Corcoran a place on the September 18 Democratic Primary ballot.