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Passing Biaggi’s bill is “going to remove any kind of doubt that this is a valid excuse,” Czarny said. “People will not have to choose between risking their health or their right to vote.” https://www.mysanantonio.com/news/article/Elections-commissioners-preparing-for-combined-15162131.php

Senator Biaggi and other proponents of the legislation, such as Manhattan Assembly-member Yuh-Line Niou (D), Onondaga County Democratic Elections Commissioner Dustin Czarny, and Common Cause, believe that expanding the current absentee voting regime would be easier to implement in a limited amount of time than an entire vote-by-mail system. https://wfuv.org/content/how-coronavirus-may-affect-new-yorks-elections

Onondaga elections commissioners Michele Sardo and Dustin Czarny told localsyr.com that much of their staff was working from home as per the governor’s executive order, but there was too much work left to do that could only be done at the board’s offices. https://www.localsyr.com/health/coronavirus/cuomo-moves-ny-presidential-primary-to-june/

“Hundreds of thousands of people are inactive on the voter rolls right now, that means we don’t have proper addresses for them,” said Czarny. This is why I support expanded absentees now to bridge to a VBM system in the future. https://www.wbfo.org/state/2020-03-27/coronavirus-spurs-push-to-postpone-nys-presidential-primary-and-allow-more-mail-in-voting

“This is all unprecedented, and that’s why we’re calling for delay,” Czarny said. “We need to figure this all out….This is only a very small portion of what he must deal with right now, but it would be nice to know what to do,” he said of the governor. “Time is ticking.” https://buffalonews.com/news/local/coronavirus-puts-special-election-for-ny-27-in-doubt/article_17b93460-3e56-545b-8aff-16186c7d3b60.html

A news release from Democratic Elections Commissioner Dustin Czarny and Republican Commissioner Michele Sardo also asked for the increased use of absentee ballots and to give local election officials more flexibility in securing poll sites and workers for the June primary.

“This is all unprecedented, and that’s why we’re calling for delay,” Czarny said. “We need to figure this all out.” Time is also looming as a factor, Wallace said, since the state’s new election laws call for early voting to start on April 17. And Czarny noted that any executive order issued by Cuomo wouldContinue reading “Virus could delay primary, cancel NY-27 special vote – Buffalo News”

“Voters should not have to choose between risking their health and exercising their right to participate in our Democracy,” Democratic election commissioner Dustin Czarny said in a news release. https://www.syracuse.com/coronavirus/2020/03/postpone-the-presidential-primary-onondaga-co-election-officials-join-statewide-push.html

“We have election workers who don’t want to work. We have polling places who don’t want us to be there. We have this stay at home order that we don’t know when that’s going to be lifted,” said OCBOE Democratic Commissioner Dustin Czarny. https://spectrumlocalnews.com/nys/central-ny/news/2020/03/24/should-nys-postpone-the-democratic-presidential-primary-