“We can’t wait to get in here to get this done … We’ve also gotten agreement from the observers to limit themselves to one person from each party per table. New York State election law never envisioned a scenario like this …”
Commissioner in a Car: Back to the office for Onondaga BOE.
Today I talk about coming back to the office. The after math of our COVID 19 outbreak. And how we are going to restart the count on Monday. Also stay home for Thanksgiving and let’s fight this disease
https://www.facebook.com/dustinmczarny/videos/1116311382158987
Tracers fall behind as coronavirus surges in Onondaga County, threatening a grim spiral – Syracuse.com
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.”
Ballot counting halted after 8 staff members test positive for COVID-19 – Daily Orange
“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.”
Commissioner in a Car: OCBOE on pause
I talk about the status of the COVID situation at the Board of Elections. The plan to resume absentee counting on Nov 30 and the coming winter and COVID on the rise in Onondaga County.
https://www.facebook.com/dustinmczarny/videos/834759320623930
Senate Democrats inch toward supermajority as absentees decide races – The Telegraph
“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
Board of Elections volunteers and staff put their health on the line to count ballots – CNYCentral.com
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.
NYC schools stay open, deputies break up illegal fight club – AP News
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.
8 coronavirus cases at Board of Elections means voting results delayed until December – Syracuse.com
“We want them and their families to be safe,” Czarny said. “They’re heroes. They’ve worked 12-hour days since Labor Day.”
Onondaga County absentee ballot count on hold 2 weeks, 8 COVID cases among staff – WRVO
“ 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.”
Dustin M. Czarny 