# Belford v. Board of Elections

> New York Court of Appeals · October 23, 1953 · 306 N.Y. 70

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/5482845

## Case

- **Full name:** In the Matter of Leonard Belford, against Board of Elections of Nassau County, and Louis R. Glantz, Intervener
- **Court:** New York Court of Appeals
- **Decided:** October 23, 1953
- **Citations:** 306 N.Y. 70; 115 N.E.2d 658; 1953 N.Y. LEXIS 775
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Dissent by Fuldvoorhis
- **Judges:** Fuld, Voorhis
- **Cited by:** 10 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

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## Opinion text

Fuld and Van Voorhis, JJ.,
dissent in the following memorandum.
To hold — as the court is now holding —- that respondent is entitled to have his name appear in a separate row for the independent body goes far toward nullifying section 248 of the Election Law. Respondent has been named by all three of the regular political parties and his name appears on the voting machine in each of the rows of those three parties. We see nothing unreasonable in the statute’s preventing his name from being listed also as an “ independent ”.
Conway, Desmond, Dye and Froessel, JJ., concur in Per Curiam opinion; Fuld and Van Voorhis, JJ., dissent in memorandum ; Lewis, Ch. J., taking no part.
Order affirmed.

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