In Reese v. Board of Elections

[WNYresident]

In Reese v. Board of Elections, questions of Republican judge’s political bias loom over suspect ruling

A recent ruling in an election law case made by local State Supreme Court Judge Christopher Burnsis raising eyebrows in the legal community and is raising questions about his partiality in the political community. Judge Burns has served on the State Supreme Court since 1996, and on Town courts since 1984. Burns’ current fourteen-year term expires in 2023, raising suspicions that political considers are coloring his legal rulings.The two principal witnesses in the case of Reese v. Erie County Board of Elections were its Commissioners: Democrat Jeremy Zellner and Republican Ralph Mohr. Immediately prior to those witnesses taking the stand, Burns refused to hear their testimony and abruptly ended the hearing. Four days later — without hearing a single witness in the case — Burns issued a scandalously unresponsive ruling that has shocked other judges on the bench for its brazenness.

https://buffalochronicle.com/2019/05...Pqz8htFyIZDr8c

Peter A. Reese‘s nominating petitions to challenge incumbent Democrat County Executive Mark Poloncarz (Zellner’s chief political compatriot), were filed and attested to by Lynn Dearmyer, a Democrat Party official from Cheektowaga who lost a 2013 race for Erie County Legislature. But Dearmeyer never logged into the Board to access its signature verification database, despite filing a government document that attested that some 400 signatures did not match the voter signatures on file at the Board.

So that means proper procedure wasn't followed?

[WNYresident]

So 400 signatures were fake or from what it sounds like proper procedure wasn't followed. How does the signature verification database work? Is it images of past signatures you can compare to the signature on the petition?