Sec. 202.64. Election Law proceedings

(a) All applications to the Supreme Court, or to a judge thereof, pursuant to the Election Law, shall be made at the special part designated for such proceedings, and where there is no special part, before the judge to whom the proceeding is assigned. As far as practicable, the application shall be brought in the county in which it arose.

(b) The judge may hear and determine the proceeding or assign it to a referee for hearing or decision, and such proceedings shall have preference over all other business of the part to which it is assigned or before the judge to whom it is assigned.

(c) The final order in an election proceeding shall state the determination and the facts upon which it was made.