“Our goal is to try to keep everybody at 1/2 hour wait time. That is the standard that we we try to keep at,” Czarny said. “We’ve added early voting sites to do that. We went from 6 to 10 from the last presidential election, and we’ve added staff to these sites. We’ve also added a wait time tool on our website where you can look at the early voting sites and see what the reported wait time is.”

https://www.waer.org/news/2024-10-28/early-voting-off-to-a-strong-start-in-onondaga-county

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More than 11,000 people in Onondaga County voted Saturday on the first day of in-person early voting for the 2024 election, according to Dustin Czarny, Onondaga County’s Democratic election commissioner.

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“All those things coming on the same day has created this thing called Golden Day where if you are not registered to vote, you can go to an early voting site, use an affidavit ballot to register and vote on the same day. Your vote will count.”

https://www.waer.org/news/2024-10-25/in-person-early-voting-gets-underway-saturday-as-registration-period-ends

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The elections board is trying something new this year to let people know how fast the line is moving at each site.

They have added a wait time tracker to the county website.

They plan to update it every half hour or hour with the wait time at each voting location, said Dustin Czarny, the Democratic elections commissioner.

https://www.syracuse.com/politics/cny/2024/10/check-wait-times-before-you-head-to-early-voting-sites-in-onondaga-county.html

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“These battleground districts are getting massive investments in door-to-door operations,” Czarny said. “In an age when it’s so hard to reach people on their phones, this is the way to do it. It’s very hard to reach people in the traditional sense.”

https://www.syracuse.com/politics/cny/2024/10/democrats-unleash-unprecedented-door-to-door-blitz-to-push-john-mannion-over-the-finish-line.html

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“We have ten locations, and they’re nice and spread out geographically all over Onondaga County in the suburbs and in the city. You should choose the location that is most convenient to you to go vote,” said Dustin Czarny, Democratic Commissioner at the Onondaga County BOE.

https://cnycentral.com/news/local/voting-early-in-onondaga-county-what-you-need-to-know#

“early voting does provide a convenient option for voters for when they like to vote on their schedule.”

https://www.localsyr.com/news/local-news/onondaga-county-is-prepared-to-save-early-voters-waiting-time/