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“All told, that resulted in in Mannion losing 18 votes and Shiroff losing 11 votes from the recount figures.
With those votes removed, Mannion ended the race with a 10-vote lead, Democratic Onondaga County elections commissioner Dustin Czarny confirmed.”
Attached is the court ruling in the SD50 court case. The result will have Mannion winning by 10 votes.
I think between the two counties, only 14 ballots were disqualified out of 132,000 ballots,” Czarny said. “I don’t think the judge is going to throw out a whole bunch more.”
Still, Czarny said voters shouldn’t write on the ballots or sign them. Mannion is clinging to a 17-vote lead, down from about 50 after the end of a hand recount completed last week. Czarny said he’s glad the hand count law is in place, but it could use some changes.
“Mainly, we should’ve gotten the certification of our initial election first and then proceeded to a hand count,” Czarny said. “Trying to do that simultaneously caused a lot of problems with personnel and all of that, trying to get this ready.”
Today I talk about the lead for John Mannion falling to just 23 votes in #sd50 going into court tomorrow. I preview what to expect over the next couple of days and how this race may come to its conclusion this week. I also talk about the work we are doing to get ready for 2023, namely new election districts and maps for races in 2023.
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This week I do a quick update on the pending court proceedings for #SD50 and then I interview Susan Lerner of Common Cause New York. We talk about the last election and priorities for election law reform in the next session of the NYS Legislature. Enjoy.
https://open.spotify.com/episode/5DUuHAQIDrmBsKACBYWiW5?si=kc4NDgo4RdaHb-KhstIhSg
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The Onondaga County Board of Elections said it had 100 ballots with objections.
Sixty-five of those objections came from Shiroff’s lawyer, 24 came from Mannion’s and 11 were protested by both lawyers. Local election commissioners Dustin Czarny and Michele Sardo shared the same opinion on what should be done with 81 of the protested ballots. They were split on 19 of them.
“CNY Central News spoke with Board of Election Commissioners from Onondaga County. Both Democrat Commissioner Dustin Czarny and Republican Commissioner Michele Sardo explained that affidavit ballots fitting this “Wrong Church” description are not counted and they estimated those ballots could make up about 10% of all affidavit ballots cast on any given Election Day. Both Czarny and Sardo agreed that in some elections the number of ballots fitting this description could be as few as a few dozen to potentially hundreds of such ballots in larger turnout elections such as Presidential or Congressional Mid-Term elections.”
This week I talk about the end of the manual hand count canvass for #SD50 today and what are the next steps to bring this race to a conclusion.. I also talk about our certification of 2022, the signing of the Wrong Church law, and redistricting lawsuits in Broome and Monroe and what that may mean for Onondaga. Enjoy.
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I have been struggling to talk about the former POTUS calling for the termination of our constitution. It is so incredibly dangerous to put this idea into the electorate. Its near insane to do so by tying it to lies about the last election. This is beyond anything before.
Yes Trumps involvement in January 6th was bad, very bad. However at least that was wrapped, falsely, in the constitutional process of accepting the election. This now is not inciting an insurrection, its stoking the flames of stochastic terrorism and open revolt.
Once again the congressional GOP is refusing to do anything about it. We should not be surprised. They had two presidential elections, two mid terms, two impeachments & an open insurrection to rid themselves of Trump. They refused to do anything at all & each time made it worse.
We are seeing the culmination of decades of election misinformation and blaming others for all of America’s woes. This is now resulting in the very real threatening of every right we have. The constitution isn’t just a paper, its our only shield against authoritarianism.
Lets be clear this was done because GOP politicians found it easier to stoke fear to gain political power instead of modifying their views to keep up with the racially diverse modern electorate. Voter id laws and gerrymandering have given way to election denial and insurrection.
We do not live in a time where we can take a year off. To be truthful we can’t take a month off, not a week, not a day. We must be guardians of our democracy on every level from school board to the Whitehouse. It is not just about who wins the next federal election.
We are in a generational ideological battle and it will take years of struggle to beat these anti-democratic forces everywhere these dangerous notions ferment. We must defend the ability of the electorate being able to choose who governs them and hold them accountable everyday.
Dustin Czarny
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I give an update on the hand count in the #SD50 race as we have canvassed over 50k of the 95k ballots in this race. We may be done by Tuesday. We also plan to certify the 2022 General election tomorrow. Visit onvote.net to get the results once done.
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Dustin M. Czarny