Ballot counting will resume Nov. 30 …Participants also will be asked to wear face shields in addition to masks. They may have to get pre-tested for coronavirus.“We cannot have another delay,’’ Czarny said. “We have to get this count done.”

https://www.syracuse.com/coronavirus/2020/11/tracers-fall-behind-as-coronavirus-surges-in-onondaga-county-threatening-a-grim-spiral.html

“We don’t know a lot of things going forward,” Czarny said. “We’re still dealing with the circumstances that are unprecedented, which seems to be the theme for 2020.”

“We ran into a flurry of objections to ballots,” … Dustin Czarny said, noting that the majority came from Republican Senate candidate Angi Renna, …“They are objecting to various different things, and so that was slowing it down quite a bit.”

https://www.thetelegraph.com/news/article/Senate-Democrats-inch-toward-supermajority-as-15734450.php

Dustin Czarny, the Democratic Elections Commissioner, said when the ballot counting resumes there will be a max of four people at a table compared to the usual six to eight.

Also, the state is providing face shields and the BOE is hoping to meet with the Onondaga County Health Department to go over a safety plan.

https://cnycentral.com/news/local/board-of-elections-volunteers-and-staff-put-their-health-on-the-line-to-count-ballots

Onondaga County elections commissioner Dustin Czarny, a Democrat, said Monday that eight of 26 staffers have tested positive. All staffers are in quarantine for two weeks, and the elections office is closed for a week.

“That’s a devastating blow operationally,” he said, adding that it’s unclear how election workers contracted the virus.

https://apnews.com/article/new-york-new-york-city-coronavirus-pandemic-bronx-bill-de-blasio-19b81b274fb36351c1485428054b79b1

“We want them and their families to be safe,” Czarny said. “They’re heroes. They’ve worked 12-hour days since Labor Day.”

https://www.syracuse.com/coronavirus/2020/11/8-coronavirus-cases-at-board-of-elections-means-voting-results-delayed-until-december.html

“ after the quarantine time period and after our staff that is positive gets by their isolation time period as well, and are able to recover,… Logistically, doing it without this many staffers in a small office like that, it would be impossible.”

https://www.wrvo.org/politics-and-government/2020-11-16/onondaga-county-absentee-ballot-count-on-hold-2-weeks-8-covid-cases-among-staff

Czarny revealed Monday that there is an agreement between the Mannion and Renna campaigns to restart the canvass on Nov. 30 and to limit the number of observers in the count

https://auburnpub.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/more-covid-19-cases-at-onondaga-county-elections-board-delays-vote-count-two-weeks/article_b0044b9f-3e0a-51f1-9b83-d0728f8992d7.html