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Czarny raised a number of concerns at the meeting. He wants the population shifts of each town, district and ward from the 2020 Census. He wants to know who is going to draw the maps and if all the members will have access to the software. He said meeting now is taking time away fromContinue reading “Democrats outraged at Onondaga County redistricting, Republicans say they’re overreacting – WRVO”

“Mr. Knapp said none of this would happen before the election,” Czarny said.”Most of the work will be done after election day,” Knapp told WAER News on Oct 5.”I envision this going well into November, past the November 2nd election.”But with committee meetings and public hearings packed into less than three weeks, Czarny is callingContinue reading “First Public Hearings Set As Onondaga County’s Redistricting Commission Rushes To Redraw District Maps Before Election Day – WAER”

“The public should be involved in the drawing of these maps. And the fact that they’re putting these meetings, all of them, before the election — taking time and energy from the two elections commissioners — in a hope to push this map through, before the election, is tantamount to election interference,” Czarny argued https://spectrumlocalnews.com/nys/central-ny/politics/2021/10/13/democrats-argue-onondaga-county-redistricting-process-is-being-rushed

“They seem to be acting like what we’ve seen with the national Republican Party, using redistricting as a tool to empower minority rule.” Czarny said.

” the only reason this is happening now is so the GOP can pass partisan maps before the end of the year.“ Because if Democrats take control of the Legislature, then we must have true bipartisan maps because the redistricting commission will be 3-3,” https://www.wrvo.org/politics-and-government/2021-10-07/along-party-lines-onondaga-county-legislature-passes-redistricting-commission

“There’s really no other way to read it,” Czarny said. “They’re not being subtle. This is an attempt to rush this through in case the legislature flips to Democrats in November.” https://www.syracuse.com/politics/2021/10/democrats-cry-foul-as-onondaga-county-gop-attempts-to-rush-redistricting.html

“We have an election in less than 30 days, and we’ll be certifying that election until Thanksgiving. I don’t know how we can get this work done and get good, fair maps.” https://www.waer.org/news/2021-10-05/onondaga-county-legislatures-gop-majority-rams-through-redistricting-plan-despite-democrat-protests