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“Election professionals, this is what we live for, we want to get the count done. And we put our lives on hold to do that…. It’s better for us to take the time, get it done right, and have it be certified in a proper way.”

t’s not what Democratic Commissioner Dustin Czarny had in mind when counting first started. “The system was working really well before we had to stop, we were like NASCAR drivers doing 100MPH and then we had to stop for a rain delay and now we’re back at it,” explained Czarny. https://cnycentral.com/news/election/onondaga-county-is-back-to-counting-absentee-ballots-after-covid-19-closure

Democratic Elections Commissioner Dustin Czarny says now everyone’s healthy and back to work. “Election professionals live to get the count done. We were like NASCAR drivers on a rain delay. We were going at 100 miles per hour and then we had to stop abruptly and wait two weeks so we’re just ready to getContinue reading “Onondaga County Counts About Half of Remaining Absentee Ballots on First Day Back – WAER”

“We can’t wait to get in here to get this done … We’ve also gotten agreement from the observers to limit themselves to one person from each party per table. New York State election law never envisioned a scenario like this …” https://www.waer.org/politics-government/2020-11-25/onondaga-county-to-resume-absentee-ballot-count-on-monday-after-two-week-pause

Ballot counting will resume Nov. 30 …Participants also will be asked to wear face shields in addition to masks. They may have to get pre-tested for coronavirus.“We cannot have another delay,’’ Czarny said. “We have to get this count done.” https://www.syracuse.com/coronavirus/2020/11/tracers-fall-behind-as-coronavirus-surges-in-onondaga-county-threatening-a-grim-spiral.html

“We don’t know a lot of things going forward,” Czarny said. “We’re still dealing with the circumstances that are unprecedented, which seems to be the theme for 2020.”

“We ran into a flurry of objections to ballots,” … Dustin Czarny said, noting that the majority came from Republican Senate candidate Angi Renna, …“They are objecting to various different things, and so that was slowing it down quite a bit.” https://www.thetelegraph.com/news/article/Senate-Democrats-inch-toward-supermajority-as-15734450.php

Dustin Czarny, the Democratic Elections Commissioner, said when the ballot counting resumes there will be a max of four people at a table compared to the usual six to eight. Also, the state is providing face shields and the BOE is hoping to meet with the Onondaga County Health Department to go over a safetyContinue reading “Board of Elections volunteers and staff put their health on the line to count ballots – CNYCentral.com”

Onondaga County elections commissioner Dustin Czarny, a Democrat, said Monday that eight of 26 staffers have tested positive. All staffers are in quarantine for two weeks, and the elections office is closed for a week. “That’s a devastating blow operationally,” he said, adding that it’s unclear how election workers contracted the virus. https://apnews.com/article/new-york-new-york-city-coronavirus-pandemic-bronx-bill-de-blasio-19b81b274fb36351c1485428054b79b1

“We want them and their families to be safe,” Czarny said. “They’re heroes. They’ve worked 12-hour days since Labor Day.” https://www.syracuse.com/coronavirus/2020/11/8-coronavirus-cases-at-board-of-elections-means-voting-results-delayed-until-december.html