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“We can and should celebrate the fact that 59k… early vote in Onondaga County, Another 51k voted by absentee. That is 110k before Election Day. However, we believe at least that many or maybe more will be coming out Tuesday so that is now our focus.” https://cnycentral.com/news/local/early-voting-ends-in-ny-more-than-59000-voted-in-onondaga-county

Ambiguous political messaging like ‘Don’t Tread on Me’ or ‘Black Lives Matter,’ that’s allowed. Or a previous president, that’s allowed. But, the names that are on the ballot are not allowed. We will ask you to cover that up,” https://spectrumlocalnews.com/nys/central-ny/news/2020/11/02/a-third-of-onondaga-county-has-voted–here-are-some-reminders-if-you-haven-t

“We can and should celebrate the fact that 59k of our friends and neighbors early vote in Onondaga County,” said Dustin Czarny (D), Onondaga County Elections Commissioner. “Another 51k voted by absentee. That is 110k before Election Day. However, we believe at least that many or maybe more will be coming out Tuesday so thatContinue reading “Early voting ends in NY; More than 59,000 voted in Onondaga County – CNYCentral.com”

“Between early voting and absentee voting, we’ve now had more people vote before Election Day than we had in all of 2019 together. But that still leaves about 100-200,000 people that haven’t voted yet, and about 100,000 to 150,000 of those are expected to come out on Election Day,” says Onondaga County Election Commissioner DustinContinue reading “Over 100,000 people vote early in Central New York: County-by-county breakdown – CNYCentral.com”

NewsChannel 9 spoke with Onondaga County Elections Commissioners Dustin Czarny and Michele Sardo on Monday about early voting in the county. https://www.localsyr.com/news/your-local-election-hq/how-did-early-voting-go-in-onondaga-county/

“As we saw over the first weekend, we adjusted. We extended hours, we made sure extra staff was out at these sites. The towns that are hosting these sites helped us with traffic control…It’s been a major undertaking. We had to do it on the fly,” -Czarny

“This is amazing and it’s a great problem…It’s obviously showing the popularity of early voting, it’s showing the need for more sites, it’s showing the need for more investments by Onondaga County for this program because 60,000 people want it.” https://www.wrvo.org/elections/2020-11-01/ahead-of-election-day-more-than-one-third-of-onondaga-county-voters-have-already-cast-ballots

“Early voting turnout and mail-in ballot requests this year are beyond every measure,” Czarny said. “There is no comparison to past years.”

“You can come into our office between now and November 2nd and get an absentee ballot and vote right here in the office. You can have somebody pick up that absentee ballot for you…we just need a note from you saying the reason.” said Czarny. https://www.waer.org/politics-government/2020-10-30/unusually-high-voter-turnout-continues-in-onondaga-county-after-early-voting-begins