WPCNR CAMPAIGN 2007. By John F. Bailey. August 3, 2007: Candyce Corcoran’s challenged signature petitions were approved by the Board of Elections this morning, as the Board’s Commissioners, Carolee Sunderland and Reginald LaFayette refused to disqualify Corcoran’s petitions on a technicality brought to their attention and challenged by the City Democratic Party leadership.
The Board followed legal precedent in accepting her petitions which did not have city and county written in on the Witness Identification Information line which was ruled by the New York Supreme Court in 2003 in a primary held in Nassau County. The case was brought to the attention of the Commissioners by Ms. Corcoran. The Board of Elections, Ms. Corcoran said, had advised her incorrectly that she did not have to fill out the Witness Identification Information section.
The Democratic City Committee Leadership had challenged all 67 pages of Ms. Corcoran’s petitions, all of which she carried herself, on the grounds that she had not written “White Plains” and “Westchester” in the Witness Identification Information section.
Ms. Corcoran was given her Letter of Acceptance from the Board of Elections Friday morning “accepting” her petitions and placing her on the September 18 Democratic Primary Ballot. On that line she will be running against Democratic Party nominees Benjamin Boykin, Milagros Lecuona and Dennis Power, and Arnold Bernstein. It has not been learned whether Mr. Bernstein’s petitions were approved at this time.
A vindicated Corcoran said, “Now I can do what I do best: meet people in the city I love, listen and talk with them in the city I love, my home, my birthplace, my White Plains.”
