Dustin Czarny, the county’s Democratic elections commissioner said this is a normal turnout for local elections. Many people typically show between 7-9 p.m., he said.
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Onondaga County voters to decide on term limits for legislators – CNY Central
“Voting yes on that ballot will do two things: It will move the Onondaga County Legislature from a two-year term to a four-year term starting in 2026and then it will also put a 12-year term limit,” explained Czarny.
https://cnycentral.com/news/local/onondaga-county-voters-to-decide-on-term-limits-for-legislators
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Commissioner in a Car: It’s Election Eve
Polls are open 6am to 9pm Tuesday November 4, 2025 for the 2025 General Election. I talk about how to find out where to vote, what to do if you still have a vote by mail ballot (mail it in!), court orders, and when results will come out. Call 315 435 VOTE if you have any questions or visit onvote.net for more information.
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Election 2025: Onondaga County breaks its record for early voting in local elections – Syracuse.com
The total is a 41% increase over the previous record for a local election year set in 2023, said Dustin Czarny, the county’s Democratic election’s commissioner.
Sunday’s total of 2,908 ballots cast in Onondaga County also set the record for the highest single-day turnout since early voting began in the county in 2019, Czarny said.
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Early voting sets record for local election in Onondaga County – WRVO News
“This is a 41% increase from 2023, the last local year, and the last record, which was only about 12,000 early voters,” said Czarny.
Early voting became an option in New York State in 2019. Czarny said as the years have gone by, it’s grown in popularity among voters.
“They like the convenience of it,” he said. “We’ve kept basically the same sites for the last four years. So they know where the sites are, they know what the hours are, and campaigns are getting used to pushing their voters to early voting to make sure that they bank those votes before Election Day.”
https://www.wrvo.org/2025-11-02/early-voting-sets-record-for-local-election-in-onondaga-county
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Commissioner in a car: How’s the early voting going?
In today’s Commissioner in a Car I talk about the stats of #EarlyVoting in Onondaga County over the first 6 days. Who is turning out? Which site are they going to? I also give you all the details to participate over the next few days. Get more info at onvote.net
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Together We Can. Neighbors Helping Neighbors. Community First. Why so many independent parties? – WAER
It must be said that these are not independent candidates for the most part,” he said. “Most of these candidates appear on a major party line. And because of our unique system of fusion voting in New York, it allows their name to appear multiple times.”
https://www.waer.org/news/2025-10-28/together-we-can-neighbors-helping-neighbors-community-first-why-so-many-independent-parties
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Election 2025: Early voting turnout on record pace for local elections in Onondaga County – Syracuse.com
By the time polls closed Monday, 5,018 people had voted at the 10 polling sites in the county, topping the record of 4,025 for the same period in 2023, said Dustin Czarny, the county’s Democratic elections commissioner.
The total through Monday far eclipsed the early turnout for local elections in 2021 (2,703) and 2019 (2,649), when New York state began offering the early voting option.
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As N.Y. state law is upheld, off-year elections aren’t really going anywhere just yet – Capitol Tonight Spectrum News
Czarny said that while he expects one intended result of the move — higher turnout for the races which have been transplanted — to come to fruition, the other intended benefit — lower costs for local governments — will probably not be significant in the near term.
“Over the next five-10 years, I wouldn’t say cost savings is the main reason to do this,” he said. “We’re already opening up polling places for judicial candidates and city candidates in those odd years until those eventually get moved.”
Czarny added that he doesn’t anticipate the move will burden elections staff on even years, given that they have time to prepare for more complex ballots and potentially more voters.
“Boards of elections, we’re pretty adaptable, we have time,” he said.
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Onondaga Co. early voting totals up from 2023 – Spectrum News
He says over the first two days of early voting, the count is running 20% above the rate it did in 2023, with a little more than 3,000 residents turning out so far.
https://spectrumlocalnews.com/nys/watertown/news/2025/10/27/onondaga-county-2025-early-voting
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