Category Archives: Interviews

Eight years ago, the county board of elections made it possible for all villages to move to November elections if they chose to. “If a village moved their election, they could save 100 percent of the cost of running an election as opposed to March and June,” Czarny said. Subscribe to dustinczarny.com to get notificationContinue reading “Shall we switch to November? – Eagle News Online”

“You can go to any site,” said Onondaga County Elections Commissioner Dustin Czarny. “If you live close to a site, you can go to it. If you’re working somewhere you want to go to another or driving or bouncing errands and decide to go to another site, you can do that.” In-person early voting runsContinue reading “Early Voting for Primary Election Begins June 15 – NCC News”

The new district lines were then projected to add 30,000 registered Democrats to the district, giving the party a nearly “20,000 voter edge,” according to preliminary calculations by Onondaga County Board of Elections Commissioner Dustin Czarny. Subscribe to dustinczarny.com for all election news and content updates

Listen to Democrat Commissioner Dustin Czarny from the Onondaga County Board of Elections on the Dave Allen Podcast on iHeartRadio! https://wsyr.iheart.com/featured/dave-allen/content/2024-05-10-early-vote-by-mail-is-constitutional-in-new-york/ Subscribe to dustinczarny.com for all content and election news updates

“A lot of Republican-led states use that rhetoric to go out and try to get people to change their voting laws to actually impact student communities, urban communities, and people who want to vote in alternative methods.”  While many states are making it more difficult to vote, there are also many laws that limit voterContinue reading “How will changes in state voting laws and procedures affect 2024 constituency? – Oswego Now”

Czarny said it is “crucial” that young voters register and show up to the polls this election year. “If this generation participates at anywhere near the equal rates of the other generations, you outnumber the other generations,” Czarny said. “Your voice can really play a part in any election and if you are consistently voting,Continue reading “SU students apathetic toward presidential primary elections – The Daily Orange”

“The voters that are going to show up today, pretty much show up at every election. That being said, it’s gonna be a very, very low turnout,” said Onondaga County Elections Commissioner Dustin Czarny in an interview on the morning of April 2.

“After going through one of the worst turnout years in the last decade, the problem with selecting local leaders in low turnout years (is that) you get a body that’s not necessarily reflective of the view of the entire electorate,” Czarny said, speaking on his own behalf and not on behalf of the caucus.  https://www.timesunion.com/state/article/n-y-law-moving-local-elections-even-years-19379629.php

“We do have early voting. We have early voting by mail. We have a lot more options than we did 5 years ago,” he said. “We have all the tools in place for people that want to register to vote pretty easily or request a ballot pretty easily to vote by mail. All of thisContinue reading “New York voters ‘agitated, dissatisifed’ as they head to polls for primary April 2 – CNY Central”

“It’s tough,” Czarny said. “And I wish that we had moved this primary to earlier in the cycle, so would have been part of the competitive part of the primary or later in June, you know, if it’s not going to be competitive, we might as well combine it with the Congressional.” https://www.wrvo.org/elections/2024-04-01/low-early-voting-turnout-in-onondaga-county-for-2024-presidential-primary