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“We’ve had a wonderful rush of inspectors this year so we’re overstaffing the sites. So someone can be in charge of maintaining social distancing, wiping down each piece of equipment and surface in between voter use, and making sure people have masks,” https://spectrumlocalnews.com/nys/central-ny/news/2020/09/18/absentee-ballot-process-begins-in-onondaga-county

Czarny says they have been working with the United States Postal Service to be as efficient as they can be to get these ballots out on time. He says if you need to request an absentee ballot do it sooner rather than later. https://cnycentral.com/news/local/board-of-elections-begins-sending-record-number-of-absentee-ballots-in-onondaga-county

About 10,000 will go to the North Syracuse U.S. Post Office this evening, said Elections Commissioners Michele Sardo and Dustin Czarny. Of those, about 1,000 are for U.S. military members, they said. By Monday, the Board of Elections plans to stuff, label and mail all 34,000 absentees that have been requested as of late thisContinue reading “Onondaga County is mailing 34,000 absentee ballots this weekend, 6 weeks before Election Day – Syracuse.com”

Czarny said you have to be sure you don’t make mistakes on your absentee registration.“ The two most common mistakes are either not sending it in on time, after the post mark date, which is surprising that it happens, but it does, that is the most common mistake. The second most common mistake is forgettingContinue reading “Absentee Ballots Could Result in Record Voter Turnout – NCC News”

“They’re on wheels, they’re locked and sealable,” Czarny said. “They cannot be opened without bipartisan controls on them. They will be transported from the polling places on Election Day back to the Board of Elections, and every night on early voting, back to the Board of Elections, for logging in the absentee ballots to getContinue reading “Drop-off boxes for absentee ballots coming to Onondaga County – WRVO”

The boards of elections will start sending the absentee ballots Friday, Sept. 18.Voters can fill out those ballots and send them back – by mail or in person – as soon as they get them, Czarny said.“ Or somebody can drop it off for you,” Czarny said. https://www.syracuse.com/politics/cny/2020/09/onondaga-county-prepares-for-record-setting-avalanche-of-absentee-ballots.html

With less than 50 days until Election Day on November 3rd making sure your informed is important. Onondaga Election Commissioners Dustin Czarny (D) and Michele Sardo (R) talk about what you should know about the upcoming election season. https://www.localsyr.com/news/local-news/what-to-know-this-election-season/

“it was a total abdication of responsibility by the federal government to not include further election funding in another COVID relief package,” Czarny said. “States are out of money. Counties are out of money. The only government source that could have provided this funding is the federal government and they failed to do so.”” https://spectrumlocalnews.com/nys/capital-region/news/2020/09/14/county-election-boards-election-charity

“When it comes to the elections, we embrace technology, we embrace change, and that has helped us,” Czarny added. “That being said, we’re about to go into times we’re in mandatory overtime, we have mandatory weekends. We’re going to be working as hard as we can to get the job done.” https://spectrumlocalnews.com/nys/central-ny/politics/2020/09/10/onondaga-county-board-of-elections-in-overdrive-as-election-nears