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“Before it was nearly impossible (for Waters) to catch up,’’ said Dustin Czarny, the county’s Democratic elections commissioner. “Now it’s only unlikely.’’ https://www.syracuse.com/news/2021/11/election-update-one-onondaga-county-legislature-race-tightens-after-recount-of-early-votes.html

Other races Czarny said he’s keeping an eye on are Onondaga County Legislature’s 10th District seat, Geddes Town Board, and Solvay’s mayoral race.“ Those three have the highest likelihood of changing with the absentee universe that is out,” said Czarny. https://www.wrvo.org/regional-news/2021-11-15/onondaga-county-races-tighten-after-recount-as-absentee-counting-set-to-begin

“The easiest and best way to comprehensively do this is to rescan all 10,000 ballots from early voting,” he said. “So those 800 ballots are counted, and included in the final counts.” https://www.wrvo.org/politics-and-government/2021-11-11/early-voting-ballots-to-be-recounted-in-onondaga-county

“There’s no reason to believe there’s intention because all the other steps that would let us know that this situation happened was followed…First we’re going to fix the problem and then we’re going to continue the investigation into how it happened.” https://cnycentral.com/news/local/anything-is-possible-elections-commissioner-says-on-ballot-recount-for-close-races

“Going by where those votes were cast, that we believe were cast in DeWitt Town Hall, there are some very close races over in Manlius which would be the logical place that they would show up and vote at, but until we run those ballots we won’t know,” https://spectrumlocalnews.com/nys/central-ny/news/2021/11/11/onondaga-county-finds-discrepancies-in-more-than-800-votes

In a tweet shared on Wednesday, Onondaga County Elections Commissioner, Dustin Czarny said the DeWitt Town Hall polling location had errors on October 25 and 30 while the Armond Magnarelli polling location had issues on October 28. https://cnycentral.com/news/local/onondaga-county-board-of-elections-to-rescan-early-voting-ballots-after-count-discrepancy

“That is why the election night results are always called unofficial until we can do these double checks. Sometimes, it’s a couple of ballots here or there. But this time, it’s a little bit more, and that’s why we’re being transparent and open.” https://www.waer.org/news/2021-11-10/onondaga-county-board-of-elections-to-rescan-all-early-voting-ballots-after-discovering-discrepancy

“All physical ballots are accounted for,” Czarny said. “They’re not missing. This is what the recanvass is designed to do – to catch a human error and fix it.” https://www.syracuse.com/politics/2021/11/onondaga-county-will-recount-early-votes-after-discovering-human-error.html