Matthews v. Zwirn’s Empirical Analysis

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1. “Pursuant to Election Law 3-204(4), the county legislative body has 30 days to accept or reject the party’s recommendation for Elections Commissioner. If it rejects the nominee, then the individual legislators of the relevant party ... may appoint a nominee and, apparently have 30 days in which to act. If they, too, fail to appoint a nominee, the party may file another certificate recommending a different person for appointment as Commissioner and the process begins anew. If the party fails to timely file a certificate, the [relevant party] members of the [legislature] are empowered to appoint any eligible person they wish.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 37 F. Supp. 2d 283 - Eisberg v. Dutchess County Legislature