Elections Professional and Activist
Dustin Czarny, an elections commissioner with the Onondaga County Board of Elections, posted on social media Monday morning that he’d received a number of reports of wrong polling locations being texted to voters. Czarny said he’s informed both the New York state Board of Elections and Attorney General Letitia James’ office of the texts.
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“We live in a time with increased threats from foreign actors, from AI, from just, you know, social media, TikTok,” Czarny said. “All of these places are ripe for bad or low-informed actors to make mistakes and cause a lot of problems.”
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“The polling places they are putting out are so egregiously wrong,” Czarny said of the texts. “They have the wrong addresses, the wrong picture of a polling location, or a wrong map. I don’t know where they got their information from.”
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Today I talk to about the Village of Liverpool election on June 18th. There is a proposition on the ballot to move the elections to November as well as two unopposed village trustee positions. I also give an update on #earlyvoting for the June Federal and local primary. Enjoy.
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Democratic Election Commissioner Dustin Czarny said others will be watching.
“If Liverpool is successful, we’ll have over half the villages in Onondaga County moved to November,” Czarny said. “And I think other villages are watching this to see how popular it is amongst their citizens, and whether they might want to think about doing this in the future.”
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On this week’s episode I speak with Mayor Stacy Finney of Liverpool. She was part of the Liverpool Together wave that swept the village last year. One of their promises was to give the village voters a choice to move elections to November, which they will on the village election ballot June 18th. We talk about that and one year as village mayor. Enjoy.
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“She pointed to a report written by Onondaga County Board of Elections Commissioner Dustin Czarny on Liverpool on how November elections boosted turnout in other villages.”
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“We haven’t seen that in the absentees and early vote by mail request yet, so you know, it’s looking like a normal turnout, but something could happen in the next few days,” Czarny said. “Elections are weird and we’ll be prepared.”
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Eight years ago, the county board of elections made it possible for all villages to move to November elections if they chose to.
“If a village moved their election, they could save 100 percent of the cost of running an election as opposed to March and June,” Czarny said.
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This week’s pod I talk about the start of #EarlyVoting in Onondaga County for the June Primary. Democrats throughout our county will select their nominee for Congress, Democrats will also select their nominee for SD 50, Republicans will select their nominee for SD48, and Republicans in Town of Lysander will select their nominee for Town Board. Get early voting and candidate information at onvote.net.
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Dustin M. Czarny