“This is part of the problem with the judge taking so long on this,” Czarny said. “Now we have these appellate cases and reconvening of conventions, we’re getting farther and farther in the clock for the elections, and people have to start making choices and mailing in absentee ballots.”   

https://www.wrvo.org/politics-and-government/2018-10-18/absentee-ballots-mailed-out-in-onondaga-county-as-state-supreme-court-candidates-remain-unresolved

Albany County Judge Roger McDonough cleared the way by delaying his own order that had kicked the GOP candidates off the ballot. By delaying his own ruling, that gives the Republicans enough time to renominate their candidates.

Czarny said a convention to renominate the candidates was planned for this weekend. If done correctly, that would keep the Republicans on the ballot.

https://www.syracuse.com/politics/2018/10/cny_absentee_ballots_going_out_today_as_though_lawsuit_never_happened.html

The judge gave Republicans another week to re-do their convention process and get those four names back on the ballot, but with election day approaching, the judge ordered a stay on the legal proceedings so these ballots could be sent out to ensure people had enough time to cast their votes.

“Which is a good move that we all agree with,” Dustin Czarny, the Democratic Commissioner of the Onondaga County Board of Elections, said.

Commissioners in all of the six affected counties were anxious to get these out in the mail and into the hands of voters.

“Yes because every day that goes by people are becoming disenfranchised…people are leaving…people are going out…takes time to get to them and then get back to us,” Czarny said.

https://cnycentral.com/news/local/absentee-ballots-to-be-mailed-starting-wednesday

Czarny said it’s not clear how absentee voters will get their ballots in time if they can’t be sent out for another week.

“Right now, the absentee ballots are on hold,” Czarny said around noon today.

Czarny and his Republican counterpart, Michelle Sardo, had already been concerned that the judge’s decision was taking so long.

https://www.syracuse.com/politics/2018/10/judges_decision_throws_november_absentee_ballots_into_chaos.html

If the appellate court allows the redo, that could delay sending out absentee ballots for another week, Czarny said.

The redo would allow the GOP to renominate the same candidates, allowing them to appear on the ballot once again.

Today’s deadline for sending out absentee ballots is not legally binding. However, the absentee ballot application says the ballots would be sent out “approximately three weeks” before the election, Czarny said.

https://www.syracuse.com/politics/2018/10/cny_absentee_ballots_still_caught_in_limbo_as_self-imposed_mailing_deadline_pass.html

“We’ve been waiting on a decision all week in this court case,” said Dustin Czarny, an Onondaga County elections commissioner. “Unfortunately, the judge has not made a decision.”

As a result, the county has not printed or mailed out any absentee ballots that have been requested from voters, Czarny said.

https://www.syracuse.com/politics/2018/10/absentee_ballots_on_hold_in_6_upstate_ny_counties_over_gop_judicial_candidates.html

My interview with CNYCentral.com aout the Voter Registration deadline in New York.

https://cnycentral.com/news/local/are-you-sure-you-can-vote-in-november