Ordered that the final order is affirmed, without costs or disbursements.
A designating petition may be invalidated where "there is a finding that the candidate has participated in or is chargeable with knowledge of fraud in procuring signatures for a designating petition, even if there is a sufficient number of valid signatures independent of those fraudulently procured" (Matter of Drace v Sayegh,
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