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Dustin Czarny, the county’s Democratic elections commissioner, said the change is unusual because party enrollment for Democrats typically declines in the years after a presidential election. One factor fueling the trend is an increase in the number of Democratic voters in Syracuse’s suburbs. Republicans historically held a voter advantage outside of the city. But nowContinue reading “Democrats widen enrollment edge in county – Syracuse.com”

“Tuesday, people work, they have obligations with their families, children’s soccer games…whatever…that may not be a good day for some people,” said Dustin Czarny, the democratic election commissioner for Onondaga County. “Now they can choose a time that’s convenient for them.” Early voting ends on Sunday, November 3rd.

It’s likely the first time anyone has spent $1 million of his own money on a county race. Democratic Elections Commissioner Dustin Czarny said he couldn’t recall a self- financed campaign that reached this level in the past 25 years. Tony Malavenda breaks $1M mark for own money spent on county exec race – syracuse.com

Czarny is happy with the turnout so far. By the end of the early voting period, he said he would love to see 20,000 people vote. The polls are open until 2 p.m. today.“ Come on down,” Czarny said. “There’s no real waits.” https://www.syracuse.com/news/2019/10/how-is-early-voting-going-in-onondaga-county-so-far-so-good.html

“I’ve heard from a lot of our people that things were going pretty well,” said Dustin Czarny, the chair of the New York State Election Commissioners Association’s Democratic caucus. “Any time you’re putting new technologies into the field, you’re going to run into some snags. But that’s another reason for doing early voting; you haveContinue reading “‘A whole new world’: Tales from New York’s first taste of early voting – Politico”

Onondaga County Elections Commissioner Dustin Czarny said only a few minor problems were quickly corrected at the county’s six polling sites. Those problems included outlets without power and paper jams in ballot printers. “We’re pretty happy with how today went,” Czarny said. “We saw steady flows all day long at all of our polling sites.”Continue reading “New York early voting: See how many cast ballots on Day 1 – Syracuse.com”

“I’ve testified a few times in Albany about making sure that the state helps these counties pay for this reform, because it’s a vital reform. We don’t want counties doing the bare minimum just because of the dollar amount .” DUSTIN CZARNYDEMOCRATIC ELECTIONS COMMISSIONER, ONONDAGA COUNTY https://www.localsyr.com/news/your-local-election-hq/early-voting-what-to-know-going-into-the-historic-election-season/

“All of our poll pads are on their own their own individual cellular-connected networks, so we can keep anyone from hacking them,” said Czarny. “They are all encrypted communications through Verizon. We could, if we need to, deploy mobile hotspots and get on the wifi of the polling places themselves in an emergency.” https://www.wrvo.org/elections/2019-10-24/electronic-poll-books-being-deployed-in-many-locations-as-early-voting-begins

“I released the data on request from Syracuse.com because I believe in transparency and it is what Mr. Beadnell should have done at the outset of this matter. It is disturbing that Mr. Beadnell has confirmed he made false assumptions to inflate my time and still has not done even the most basic research intoContinue reading “Comptroller’s report on moonlighting county employee: some homework, some guesswork – Syracuse.com”

“It is the first year and this is one of our lowest turnout years in our cycle. But what we have seen in other states is that over time, early voting increases its usage tremendously. Wherever they start off at, every year it grows in popularity, so we’re hoping that it’ll do that [here].” https://www.waer.org/local-news/2019-10-23/skip-the-line-early-voting-begins-saturday-in-onondaga-county-and-across-the-state