Now that Frank Seddio has been formally nominated to serve on the city Board of Elections by the Brooklyn Democratic Party that he once led, there’s little chance that the City Council will reject the nomination pending before the Committee on Rules, Privileges and Elections, but they should. They absolutely should. Seddio represents all that is wrong with politics: cheating, rule-breaking and lying. Once a backbencher assemblyman out of Canarsie, an ex-cop with a law degree, Seddio was, is and always will be a loyal cog of the notorious Thomas Jefferson Democratic Club, the TJ. And so when the Albany overlords cooked up a midnight plan in 2005 to create a second Surrogate Court judgeship for Brooklyn and remove the primary voters from the process of picking a candidate, leaving the choice up to party bosses, Seddio made his move. Mind you, the County of Kings, like the rest of the state, save Manhattan, had been well served by having a single surrogate for 218 years since those courts were set up by chapter 38 of the Laws of 1787. The surrogate is the prized plum of all patronage, controlling millions from the estates of the dead. The spot was greased for Joe Lentol, but Lentol honorably backed down in the furor. Not so for Seddio, who jumped. The second Brooklyn surrogate should never have been established and it has caused great scandal. Seddio was sworn in on Jan. 1, 2006 and this column quickly uncovered a severe ethics violation that would force him from office: That as a judicial candidate he improperly gave $55,090 from his Assembly campaign fund to his besties like the TJ Club and local groups. An official probe was opened and as we wrote: “Seddio could go down as having had one of the shortest judgeships in New York history. Easy come, easy go.” He lasted just a year and 131 days of a 14-year-term, quitting in 2007. Seddio wrote in his resignation letter: “It is my hope that during my tenure I have been able to improve the image of the court.” The nerve of this guy. In 2012, when Seddio was picked as the Brooklyn party leader, he kept promising to open the records of the conduct commission from 2007. He lied and never released anything. And now this shnook will be in charge of our elections. Ironically, the Manhattan Democrat on the Board of Elections was also a Brooklyn surrogate judge. Carol Edmead was a distinguished Manhattan judge for a quarter century who was brought in by the state court leadership in 2021 to clean the mess of Brooklyn Surrogate Harriet Thompson, when Thompson was suspended. Thompson was yanked for spewing racist and anti-gay garbage and had been put into the spot in 2018 by Seddio into his former (and still unneeded) judgeship without any primary or general election opponents. When Edmead had to step down as a judge at the maximum retirement age, she was placed on the Board of Elections last year. Edmead is a gem, as honest and upright as they come. We can only hope that some of her ethical bearings rub off on Seddio, but we’re not counting on it. The City Council should say no to Seddio. The Brooklyn Democrats can come up with a better person, someone of high standards, not a lousy defrocked judge.