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“This is putting us on the map,” Onondaga County Democratic Elections Commissioner Dustin Czarny said. “This is the first city in New York to do this. First city east of the Mississippi to do this.” In an era of redistricting controversy, this process is exciting to some like Czarny who served on the county RedistrictingContinue reading “Syracuse city redistricting process praised as ‘a clean slate’ – Spectrum News”

Dustin Czarny, the Democratic Elections Commissioner for Onondaga County, said population imbalance is a problem across the board. Czarny, who displayed the current maps at the meeting, said the area around Syracuse University’s South Campus is an extreme example. “It’s a very transient district, where students only reside in their sophomore year, but you haveContinue reading “Respect neighborhood borders, North Side community tells Syracuse redistricting committee – WAER”

“Onondaga County Elections Commissioner Dustin Czarny indicated the pace of voting was very brisk, with a vote being processed every 1.15 minutes throughout the 15 hours the polls were open.”

As the 2020 Census approached, Czarny and another advocate for nonpartisan redistricting, Susan Lerner, executive director of the good government group Common Cause New York, pushed for the citizen-led model to be adopted in Syracuse. The Onondaga County Legislature rejected the idea. But the Syracuse Common Council voted to adopt it, and city voters approvedContinue reading “15 Syracuse citizens set out to redraw the city’s political maps; ‘We’re so apolitical’”