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She notified her boss, Election Commissioner Dustin Czarny who arrived too late to see the agents but said polling witnesses assured him there were no voters at the site when the agents stepped inside. Therein lies the rub, it appears the agents violated state election laws that restrict only necessary people enter the polling centersContinue reading “Federal investigators accuse Onondaga County poll worker of outing an already outed undercover ICE agent – WAER”

Onondaga County Democratic Elections Commissioner Dustin Czarny said he responded to the polling place shortly after the incident, spoke with poll workers, made sure voting wasn’t disrupted and “connected Paige to resources.” https://apnews.com/article/ice-poll-worker-syracuse-fa082f8ac25d019e93b526fdef37df6c Subscribe to dustinczarny.com for all content and election related news

Czarny said the confrontation did not affect voters and did not disrupt voting procedures at the site. However, the elections commissioner expressed concern that it will heighten fears of federal law enforcement interference in the upcoming midterms. “People are scared,” Czarny said. “I want to assure the public, especially in my county, that we’re goingContinue reading “ICE agents confront New York poll worker during voting, as state prosecutors review incident – Democracy Docket”

Dustin Czarny, the Democratic elections commissioner at the Onondaga County Board of Elections, said ICE’s presence was inappropriate. “There was no emergency inside this polling place. There was no urgency to this matter that this had to be done during the hours of 6 p.m. and 9 p.m. on June 23,” Czarny said. https://spectrumlocalnews.com/nys/central-ny/news/2026/06/25/ice-agents-at-syracuse-poll SubscribeContinue reading “Syracuse poll worker says ICE agents targeted her at primary election polling place -Spectrum News”

Czarny said election law authorizes only specific people to be inside a polling place: Poll workers, elections inspectors, voters eligible to vote at the site and someone a voter brought to assist them in voting. “There’s no role for law enforcement officials to be inside a polling place unless they are responding to an emergencyContinue reading “Federal agents track down Syracuse woman, demand she remove Instagram post about ICE – Syracuse.com”