Opinion
March 12, 1992
Appeal from the Supreme Court, Suffolk County (Mullen, J.).
Ordered that the judgment is affirmed, without costs or disbursements.
"[T]he requirement of Election Law § 6-132 that the subscribing witness make a signed statement as to the total number of signatures on the petition sheet to which [the statement] is appended is `[e]ssential to the integrity of the petition process'" (Matter of Harfmann v Sachs, 138 A.D.2d 550, quoting Matter of Jonas v Velez, 65 N.Y.2d 954, 955). Election Law § 15-108, which provides for the nomination of candidates for elective village offices, contains a provision almost identical to that provision of Election Law § 6-132. The requirement that the witness's signed statement include the number of signatures on the petition sheet was clearly not satisfied in this case. Therefore, the court properly invalidated the petition. Sullivan, J.P., Lawrence, Eiber and Pizzuto, JJ., concur.