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Dustin Czarny, the Democratic elections commissioner at the Onondaga County Board of Elections, said ICE’s presence was inappropriate.
“There was no emergency inside this polling place. There was no urgency to this matter that this had to be done during the hours of 6 p.m. and 9 p.m. on June 23,” Czarny said.
https://spectrumlocalnews.com/nys/central-ny/news/2026/06/25/ice-agents-at-syracuse-poll
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I appeared on The Jim Reith Show to talk about the close race in AD 129. I talk about the closeness of the race, the path forward, and when we might get final results.
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“On May 29, the Aloft hotel notified us of a convention that was booked, and that they wouldn’t be able to service us on election day,” Czarny said.
“We updated our website (county). It looks like there may have been a snafu on the upload to the state website. We were notified at 9 AM this morning (June 23) that the issue had happened, and we fixed it right away.”
https://www.localsyr.com/news/local-news/onondaga-county-voting-challenges
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“The average age of early voters was 61.3 years, compared to 58 years for those who voted by 6:30 p.m. on Election Day, said Dustin Czarny, the county’s Democratic elections commissioner.”
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I wrap up primary night. I talk about what is left in the race for Assembly District 129, how we will get to a final count, what happened at the end of polling with White Branch Library, and I briefly address the reports of an ICE agent and Onondaga County poll site. Enjoy.
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County Board of Elections Commissioner Dustin Czarny, a Democrat, said that there are 51 mail-in ballots received that have not yet been scanned. There are also 459 mail-in ballots that could still be received. An unknown number of affidavit ballots also remains uncounted, he added.
“Those will be opened [Wednesday] in front of the candidates,” Czarny said.
The Board of Elections expects to have a full count of the mail-in ballots and affidavit ballots by June 30. Results have to be certified by July 7, Czarny noted.
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Czarny said election law authorizes only specific people to be inside a polling place: Poll workers, elections inspectors, voters eligible to vote at the site and someone a voter brought to assist them in voting.
“There’s no role for law enforcement officials to be inside a polling place unless they are responding to an emergency of some kind,” he said. “There is no indication of that here.”
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County boards of elections across the state have spent months getting sites ready.
“We’ve trained inspectors, we’ve tested equipment, we’ve taken in vote by mail ballots, we’ve done all of this in a bipartisan fashion,” said Dustin Czarny, the Democratic commissioner of the Onondaga County Board of Elections.
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Primary Day is Tuesday June 23rd. Polls are open 6am to 9pm. Democrats can vote county wide. Republicans in Pompey district 6. State Comptroller, Syracuse Common Councilor, Assembly District 29, and County legislature 8, 15, & 16 have primaries. Go to onvote.net to find your polling place and check your registration.
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“Of the 3,258 Democrats who cast ballots during the early voting period, 1,456 are registered in the 129th Assembly District where Brown is trying to unseat Magnarelli.
Voter turnout in the district – which spans most of Syracuse, and all of Geddes and Van Buren – was higher than any other part of the county, said Dustin Czarny, the Democratic elections commissioner.”
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Dustin M. Czarny