Challenge to Teachout focuses on residency

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Jimmy Vielkind

ALBANY—Andrew Cuomo's challenge to Democratic insurgent Zephyr Teachout will only focus on her residency, according to specific objections received Monday by the State Board of Elections.

The two three-page packets were a follow-up to general objections that former senator Marty Connor, an election lawyer working for the Cuomo campaign, filed on behalf of two Hudson Valley voters. That filing contained no details, but Connor has repeated the same claims about Teachout's non-residency in a petition filed last week in Supreme Court in Brooklyn.

State law requires a gubernatorial candidate to have been a five-year resident of the state. Connor's filing says there are “indicia” of Teachout residing in her native Vermont and other states in recent years that should disqualify her.

http://www.capitalnewyork.com/article/albany/2014/07/8549782/challenge-teachout-focuses-residency