Ordered that the judgment is affirmed, without costs or disbursements.
Based upon the record before us, we conclude that the petitioners failed to meet their burden of establishing by clear and convincing evidence that the designating petition in question was permeated by fraud and should be invalidated (see, Matter of Thomas v. Simon, 89 A.D.2d 952, affd 57 N.Y.2d 744). We further find no merit to the petitioners' challenges to the court's evidentiary rulings at the hearing. Mollen, P.J., Mangano, Thompson, Bracken and Brown, JJ., concur.