8 NEW YORK LAW JOURNAL Election Day Disputes Continued from page 1 officials said. The polls open at 6 a.m. In addition, support crews comprised of a court attorney, reporter, interpreter and court officer will be stationed at all election court sites in anticipation of the reserve justices being activated. Support crews will also be working for the 15 non-reserve justices. Jonathan Lippman, presiding justice of the Appellate Division, First Department, said his court will be ready to handle any appeals from Justice Lippman rulings by the Supreme Court justices. “We will have people on call,” Justice Lippman said Friday. “Everyone will have our chief clerk’s number.” Outside of New York City, court staffing will be the same as in previous elections except for Nassau County, where five additional judges will be assigned to hear voter eligibility cases. Six judges normally are assigned to election day duty in Nassau County, according to David Sullivan, chief of staff to Jan H. Plumadore, deputy chief administrator for the courts outside of New York City. Voter enrollment in Nassau County, where there are under 1 million registered voters, has increased by about 40,000 since March. Help for Voters On election day, around 20 law students from Hofstra Law School will represent voters who are petitioning to cast their ballots. According to professor Stefan Krieger, for the first time, student representation will Stefan Krieger be available throughout the day at the court complex in Mineola. “We were approached by the representatives of the Republican and Democratic parties on Long Island and they told us that in the past, volunteer lawyers had represented clients and they asked if law students would do it, so we signed up,” Mr. Krieger said in an interview. Mr. Krieger said he did not expect problems, noting that the students were trained in a three-hour session that covered procedural and ethical aspects of the law. Professor Serge Martinez also will be on hand to supervise. The Asian American Legal Defense Fund also said it will have attorneys and volunteers tomorrow in 11 states with high Asian populations, including New York, to monitor polling sites for compliance with the Help America Vote Act and to make sure voters are given provisional paper ballots if their names are not on voting rolls. State administrative judges are required to designate at least one judge in each county who is available to adjudicate voter eligibility disputes on both primary and general election day. People prohibited from voting, typically because their names are not on the voter rolls maintained by local boards of elections, have the option of seeking a judge’s approval to cast their ballots on voting machines or to fill out paper affidavit ballots on which they attest to having properly registered. Local boards of elections later check registration materials and, if those casting affidavit ballots are found to be eligible to vote, their votes are counted. Thomas Spargo, an election law attorney and former Supreme Court justice, said affidavit ballots guarantee that the votes of legitimately registered voters are counted. But some voters like the “regularity of the balloting process” on voting machines and “they want to attend to it that day” by seeking authorization to vote from a judge, Mr. Spargo said. New Voting Machines This will be the first election in which electronic ballot-marking machines will be available for the handicapped at all polling places in New York. Most voters will continue to use the traditional lever-action machines. John R. Parete, an Ulster County Board of Elections commissioner, said Friday that “getting the logistics down for the new machines is causing us as much work as anything” in preparing for tomorrow’s balloting. The electronic machines are the first step in the phasing out of the mechanical voting machines that have been used for decades in New York. The 2002 federal Help America Vote Act requires that all votes nationally be cast electronically. The Department of Justice sued the state in 2006 to force compliance with the act. Northern District judge Gary E. Sharpe is monitoring the suit. The state missed a deadline to have the new machines in place in time for the 2008 elections. Indications in recent months from the state Board of Elections to Judge Sharpe have been that the new deadline of the 2009 elections for having the electronic machines in place may be missed because of problems revealed by tests on the new machines. Joel.Stashenko@incisivemedia. com; [email protected] Monday, November 3, 2008 Judicial Candidate Ratings New York City Court System New York City Bar Association Brooklyn Bar Association Queens Bar Association Richmond County Bar Association Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Law Assoc. New York [County] Women’s Bar Assoc. Manhattan Supreme Court 1st District (4 open seats) Marcy L. Kahn D, R Qualified Approved Highly Approved Approved Martin Schoenfeld D, R Qualified Approved Approved Approved Judith J. Gische D Did Not Participate Approved Highly Approved Approved Shirley Werner Kornreich D Did Not Participate Approved Highly Approved Approved Surrogate Court (1 open seat) Nora S. Anderson D Qualified Approved Highly Approved Did Not Participate Civil CourtCounty (1 open seat) Nancy M. Bannon D Qualified Approved Approved Approved Civil Court 1st District (1 open seat) Frank P. Nervo D Qualified Approved Highly Approved Approved Ariel E. Belen D, R, C Qualified Approved Approved Highly Approved Gloria M. Dabiri D, R, C Qualified Approved Approved Did Not Participate John M. Leventhal D, R, C Qualified Approved Approved Highly Approved Plummer E. Lott D, R, C Qualified Approved Approved Approved Ellen M. Spodek D, R Did Not Participate Approved Approved Highly Approved Marsha L. Steinhardt D, R, C Qualified Approved Approved Highly Approved Richard Velasquez D Did Not Participate Not Approved Approved Did Not Participate Paul Wooten D Did Not Participate Approved Did Not Participate Did Not Participate Paul M. Atanasio C Did Not Participate Not Approved Not Approved Did Not Participate Alice Fisher Rubin D Qualified Approved Approved Highly Approved Vincent F. Martusciello R, C Did Not Participate Not Approved Not Approved Did Not Participate Loren B. Schiffman D Qualified Approved Approved Highly Approved Theodore Alatsas R, C Did Not Participate Not Approved Not Approved Did Not Participate Ingrid Joseph D Qualified Approved Approved Did Not Participate Approved Brooklyn Supreme Court 2nd District (8 open seats) Civil CourtCounty (3 open seats) Philip J. Smallman R, C Did Not Participate Approved Civil Court 1st District (1 open seat) Devin P. Cohen D Did Not Participate Not Approved Civil Court 4th District (1 open seat) Lisa S. Ottley D Did Not Participate Approved Did Not Participate Supreme Court 12th District (1 open seat) Alexander W. Hunter Jr. D Qualified Approved Approved Highly Approved Raphael R. Savino R, C Did Not Participate Approved Approved Did Not Participate Civil CourtCounty (1 open seat) Elizabeth A. Taylor D Did Not Participate Approved Approved Did Not Participate Marcos A. Pagan III R, C Did Not Participate Not Approved Not Rated Did Not Participate Orin R. Kitzes D Qualified Approved Approved Approved Did Not Participate Bronx Queens Supreme Court 11th District (7 open seats) Qualified Did Not Participate Jaime A. Rios D Qualified Approved Qualified Did Not Participate Sheri S. Roman D Qualified Approved Qualified Did Not Participate Frederick D.R. Sampson D Qualified Not Rated Qualified Did Not Participate Martin J. Schulman D Qualified Approved Qualified Highly Approved Bernice Siegal D Did Not Participate Approved Well Qualified Did Not Participate Robert Beltrani R, C Did Not Participate Not Approved Not Rated Did Not Participate John F. Casey R, C Did Not Participate Not Approved Not Approved Did Not Participate Peter Finocchiaro R Did Not Participate Not Approved Not Rated Did Not Participate Anthony L. Fumerelle R Did Not Participate Not Approved Not Rated Did Not Participate Joseph F. Kasper R, C Did Not Participate Not Approved Not Rated Did Not Participate Kerry John Katsorhis R, C Did Not Participate Not Approved Qualified Did Not Participate Lee A. Mayersohn R, C Did Not Participate Approved Well Qualified Did Not Participate Joseph W. Sanscrainte R Did Not Participate Not Approved Not Rated Did Not Participate Civil CourtCounty (2 open seats) Terrence C. O’Connor D Did Not Participate Not Approved Not Rated Did Not Participate Carmen R. Velasquez D Did Not Participate Approved Qualified Did Not Participate Civil Court 4th District (1 open seat) Pam B. Jackman-Brown D Did Not Participate Approved Qualified Did Not Participate Judith N. McMahon D, C, WF Did Not Participate Approved Approved Did Not Participate Philip S. Straniere R, I Did Not Participate Approved Approved Did Not Participate Staten Island Supreme Court 13th District (1 open seat) Long Island Mid-Hudson Valley Court System Nassau County Bar Association Suffolk County Bar Association Court System Dutchess County Bar Assoc. Nassau Supreme Court 10th District (4 open seats) Bronx Bar Association William J. Condon D, R, C, I Did Not Participate Did Not Participate Jerry Garguilo D, C, I Qualified Did Not Participate Orange County Bar Assoc. Rockland County Bar Assoc. Westchester County Bar Assoc. Westchester Women’s Bar Assoc. Dutchess Surrogate’s Court (1 open seat) James Pagones R, C, I Qualified Well Qualified Family Court (1 open seat) Joan Posner D, I, WF Qualified Well Qualified Thomas O’Neil I Did Not Participate Qualified Stephen R. Hunter D, WF Did Not Participate Highly Qualified Robert A. Onofry R, C, I Qualified Highly Qualified Hector D. LaSalle D, C, I, WF Qualified Did Not Participate Edward A. Maron D, C, WF Did Not Participate Well Qualified Kenneth A. Davis R, I Did Not Participate Well Qualified Patricia Filberto R Did Not Participate Did Not Participate Robert A. Lifson R, WF Qualified Did Not Participate Orange Robert A. Bruno D, R, C Did Not Participate Well Qualified Michael A. Ciaffa D, I, WF Did Not Participate Well Qualified Surrogate’s Court (1 open seat) Tricia M. Ferrell D, I, WF Did Not Participate Well Qualified Fred J. Hirsh D, I, WF Qualified Well Qualified Rockland Francis D. Ricigliano D, I, WF Qualified Well Qualified R, C, I Qualified Well Qualified Thomas E. Walsh II Did Not Participate Did Not Participate Terence P. Murphy R, C, I Did Not Participate Well Qualified Surrogate Court (1 open seat) D, C, I, WF Dana M. Jaffe Ignatius L. Muscarella R, C, I Did Not Participate Well Qualified Family Court (1 open seat) William P. Warren D,I,C,WF Did Not Participate Approved District Court 4th District (2 open seats) Angelo A. Delligatti D, R, C, I Did Not Participate Well Qualified Westchester Martin J. Masell D, R, C, I Did Not Participate Well Qualified Well Qualified D, R, C, I, WF Did Not Participate Well Qualified Did Not Participate Well Qualified Norman St. George Susan M. Capeci D, WF County Court (1 open seat) County Court (1 open seat) Not Qualified D, C Did Not Participate Well Qualified Did Not Participate Not Qualified Robin M. Kent Raymond W. Belair RL Family Court (1 open seat) Carnell Foskey R, I, WF Qualified Well Qualified District Court 2nd District (5 open seats) Suffolk Suffolk County Court (3 open seats) Joseph Farneti D, R, C, I, WF Qualified Qualified James F. Quinn D, R, C, I, WF Qualified Qualified Jeffrey Arlen Spinner D, R, C, I, WF Qualified Qualified Family Court (1 open seat) David R. Freundlich D, R, C, I, WF Qualified Qualified District Court 3rd District (2 open seats) William A. Cadel D, WF Did Not Participate Qualified Gary P. Field D, WF Did Not Participate Qualified Stephen Hackeling R, C, I Did Not Participate Qualified Paul M. Hensley R, C, I Qualified Qualified District Court 4th District (1 open seat) William G. Holst D Did Not Participate Qualified John J. Toomey Jr. R, C, I, WF Did Not Participate Qualified District Court 5th District (2 open seats) William G. Ford D, I, WF Did Not Participate Qualified Jennifer A. Henry D, R, C, I Did Not Participate Qualified Cameron Alden C Did Not Participate Qualified Stephen L. Ukeiley D, WF Qualified Qualified Howard M. Bergson R, C, I Qualified Qualified District Court 6th District (1 open seat) Party Key: D - Democrat R - Republican C - Conservative I - Independence WF - Working Families Lawjobs.com is the premier job board for all legal professionals. To place an ad contact: Leonie Christie Leonie Christie 347-227-3145 212-545-5933 [email protected] [email protected] 3.5” x 3 cols house ad
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