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“They voted by mail in the pandemic, so maybe eight years since they voted in person and those polling places can change over that time. they need to go to their trusted sources to get information. Don’t Google. Go to our website. We’ve done a lot of work to make that website very accurate andContinue reading “Onondaga County prepares for record voter turnout – WAER”

“Any pen works on our Clear Ballot scanners, whether vote by mail or in person. No need for Sharpies or special ink. Just fill in the voting oval with a regular blue or black ink pen is our recommendation. We also discourage the use of “x” or pencil.” Czarny said via email to the YourContinue reading “Your Stories Q&A: Sharpie, pen, pencil…does it matter what I use to fill out my mail-in ballot? – WSYR 9”

But it is too early and there are too many caveats to draw any conclusions from that initial enthusiasm, said Dustin Czarny, the county’s Democratic elections commissioner. “It’s hopping. It’s really hopping,” he said. “It’s just not indicative of anything until we know on Election Day.” https://www.syracuse.com/politics/cny/2024/10/what-does-enthusiastic-early-voting-in-cny-say-about-winners-and-losers-its-too-early-to-tell.html Subscribe to dustinczarny.com for all content and electionContinue reading “What does enthusiastic early voting in CNY say about winners and losers? It’s too early to tell. – Syracuse.com”

“Our goal is to try to keep everybody at 1/2 hour wait time. That is the standard that we we try to keep at,” Czarny said. “We’ve added early voting sites to do that. We went from 6 to 10 from the last presidential election, and we’ve added staff to these sites. We’ve also addedContinue reading “Early voting off to a strong start in Onondaga County – WAER”

More than 11,000 people in Onondaga County voted Saturday on the first day of in-person early voting for the 2024 election, according to Dustin Czarny, Onondaga County’s Democratic election commissioner. https://loom.ly/LIERNNg

“All those things coming on the same day has created this thing called Golden Day where if you are not registered to vote, you can go to an early voting site, use an affidavit ballot to register and vote on the same day. Your vote will count.” https://www.waer.org/news/2024-10-25/in-person-early-voting-gets-underway-saturday-as-registration-period-ends Subscribe to dustinczarny.com for all content andContinue reading “In-person early voting gets underway Saturday as registration period ends – WAER”

The elections board is trying something new this year to let people know how fast the line is moving at each site. They have added a wait time tracker to the county website. They plan to update it every half hour or hour with the wait time at each voting location, said Dustin Czarny, the Democratic electionsContinue reading “Check wait times before you head to early voting sites in Onondaga County – Syracuse.com”

“These battleground districts are getting massive investments in door-to-door operations,” Czarny said. “In an age when it’s so hard to reach people on their phones, this is the way to do it. It’s very hard to reach people in the traditional sense.” https://www.syracuse.com/politics/cny/2024/10/democrats-unleash-unprecedented-door-to-door-blitz-to-push-john-mannion-over-the-finish-line.html Subscribe to dustinczarny.com for all content and election news updates

“We have ten locations, and they’re nice and spread out geographically all over Onondaga County in the suburbs and in the city. You should choose the location that is most convenient to you to go vote,” said Dustin Czarny, Democratic Commissioner at the Onondaga County BOE. https://cnycentral.com/news/local/voting-early-in-onondaga-county-what-you-need-to-know#