Elections Professional and Activist
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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“For the most part, what we’re seeing is the hand count is confirming the machine count,” said Onondaga County Democratic Elections Commissioner Dustin Czarny. “A couple of ballots here and there that are now counted or discounted because of the machines are incredibly accurate but when we are talking about a 50 vote race there’s going to be 1 or 2 but out of the first 21000 that had changed voted so that’s a hyper small amount but when it’s a 50 vote race all of that matters.”
“It wasn’t like 2020 where we saw thousands of ridiculous objections,” Czarny said. “There were a minimal number of objections. I think it went like we thought it would.”
“In an ultra-close race like this, every vote counts,” said Dustin Czarny. “And we have to make sure every vote is counted. This is the only way to really, truly say who won.”
https://cnycentral.com/news/local/the-hand-recount-for-ny-50-senate-race-begins-today
“When races are this close, the extra time taken to make sure who won the race is important. This process is much longer and we’re not going to have any haste in it. We need to be accurate, and so we’re going to take some time to get this right.”
Today I give an update on the hand count in #SD50. We were able to canvass nearly 14k ballots on the first day. The counting will continue until all of the nearly 90k ballots are hand counted, and we finally have the final results for this race.
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