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More than 11,000 people in Onondaga County voted Saturday on the first day of in-person early voting for the 2024 election, according to Dustin Czarny, Onondaga County’s Democratic election commissioner. https://loom.ly/LIERNNg

“All those things coming on the same day has created this thing called Golden Day where if you are not registered to vote, you can go to an early voting site, use an affidavit ballot to register and vote on the same day. Your vote will count.” https://www.waer.org/news/2024-10-25/in-person-early-voting-gets-underway-saturday-as-registration-period-ends Subscribe to dustinczarny.com for all content andContinue reading “In-person early voting gets underway Saturday as registration period ends – WAER”

The elections board is trying something new this year to let people know how fast the line is moving at each site. They have added a wait time tracker to the county website. They plan to update it every half hour or hour with the wait time at each voting location, said Dustin Czarny, the Democratic electionsContinue reading “Check wait times before you head to early voting sites in Onondaga County – Syracuse.com”

“These battleground districts are getting massive investments in door-to-door operations,” Czarny said. “In an age when it’s so hard to reach people on their phones, this is the way to do it. It’s very hard to reach people in the traditional sense.” https://www.syracuse.com/politics/cny/2024/10/democrats-unleash-unprecedented-door-to-door-blitz-to-push-john-mannion-over-the-finish-line.html Subscribe to dustinczarny.com for all content and election news updates

“We have ten locations, and they’re nice and spread out geographically all over Onondaga County in the suburbs and in the city. You should choose the location that is most convenient to you to go vote,” said Dustin Czarny, Democratic Commissioner at the Onondaga County BOE. https://cnycentral.com/news/local/voting-early-in-onondaga-county-what-you-need-to-know#

“early voting does provide a convenient option for voters for when they like to vote on their schedule.” https://www.localsyr.com/news/local-news/onondaga-county-is-prepared-to-save-early-voters-waiting-time/

“Up until July, it was pretty dead on the Democrat and Republican side, while the non-enrolled were pretty high,” Czarny said. “So the partisan enrollment have started to pick up. And of course the Democrat enrollment has really picked up since and we’ve seen a lot of people switching parties as well.” https://www.waer.org/news/2024-09-28/onondaga-county-residents-have-four-weeks-left-to-register-to-vote Subscribe toContinue reading “Onondaga County residents have four weeks left to register to vote – WAER”

“It seems that this was a top-down decision that the county executive’s office was very involved in,’’ said Dustin Czarny, the county’s Democratic election commissioner. McMahon declined to comment. Subscribe to dustinczarny.com for all content and election news updates

“So we’re asking for six new people that will help us deal with all the equipment that we have, all of these new burdens and voter registration.,” Czarny said. “That still brings us to one for 11,000. We’re still one of the worst in the state, but we believe that our staff will be ableContinue reading “Onondaga County voter registration soars; elections commissioners request more positions – WAER”

“We are already at a record and we will do way more than that as we get closer to this election,” said Dustin Czarny, democratic board of elections commissioner for Onondaga County. “There’s been a lot of events in the last month that have contributed to this. Obviously you had the changeover to this withContinue reading “Voter registration in Onondaga County breaks record one month before deadline – CNY Central”