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Dustin Czarny, an elections commissioner in Onondaga County, New York, submitted written testimony in advance of the hearing underscoring the “sophisticated and continuously validated processes” that help keep our elections safe and secure, while calling on congressional leaders to invest in the country’s critical election infrastructure now and over the long-term in order to meetContinue reading “Members of Issue One’s Faces of Democracy testify before Congress about challenges facing U.S. elections – Issue One”

Onondaga County Elections Commissioner Dustin Czarny said this divide in politics nationally has driven people to local politics instead. “I think the underreported story over the last four to eight years is while national politics has gotten bad, that has driven interest in local politics as well.” https://cnycentral.com/news/local/local-politics-sees-a-surge-in-interest-amid-national-tensions#

“A village resident belonging to that group said that judging by data collected of other local villages that was shared this month by Onondaga County Democratic Elections Commissioner Dustin Czarny, a November election is likely to increase turnout in village elections compared to the number of people that vote in March.”

“There’s a few winners, there’s a few losers,” Czarny said. “New York 1 is a Republican district that got more Republican and then you’ve got our district–New York 22–that actually didn’t change at all.” https://www.waer.org/news/2024-02-28/democratic-state-lawmakers-could-implement-new-congressional-district-map-as-early-as-wednesday

“I’m hoping that we have a final nap by February 27th,” Czarny said. “That is when petitioning is supposed to start and. Any real delay past that date puts in jeopardy the political calendar that’s in place now.” https://www.waer.org/news/2024-02-17/county-lections-officials-urge-nys-legislature-to-act-quickly-on-new-congressional-map

The district would have 173,301 Democrats, 143,225 Republicans and 129,650 voters who are not enrolled in a party, according to an estimate compiled by Dustin Czarny, an Onondaga County elections commissioner. https://www.syracuse.com/politics/cny/2024/02/new-maps-treat-brandon-williams-more-harshly-than-any-ny-congressman-and-hes-sore.html

The proposed district also gives Democrats an advantage of about 30,000 more enrolled voters than Republicans, according to preliminary calculations by Dustin Czarny, an Onondaga County elections commissioner. https://www.syracuse.com/politics/cny/2024/02/new-house-map-would-help-democrats-in-fight-to-win-close-syracuse-seat.html

“This $10 million dollars in extra funding that we are requesting, distributed by the State Board of Elections based on voter population, will allow the counties to have the flexibility they need to meet the needs that you, the legislature, have asked us to do in this upcoming presidential election,” Czarny said. https://www.wxxinews.org/2024-02-12/elections-commissioners-from-nys-plead-for-more-financial-support

If Freyleue’s group issuccessful, Baldwinsville voters could face voting on two competing referendums on March 19– one approving a June vote and the other approving the November one. If both passed, that would create a conflict that would likely be settled in court, said Dustin Czarny, an Onondaga County Board of Elections commissioner. https://www.syracuse.com/politics/cny/2024/01/a-fight-over-moving-elections-in-1-onondaga-county-village-could-end-up-in-court.html