Category Archives: Redistricting

“PlanScore, a non-profit website by the campaign legal center, another non-profit entity, scored the plan in February of 2020 and said that in 94% of all results, Republicans would lead the county legislature. That is in a county where Democrats have a large plurality of registered voters. In fact, Republicans are the third in OnondagaContinue reading “Democratic legislators sue Onondaga County for gerrymandering – WAER”

“This process was designed at the start to put a partisan gerrymander to ensure a minority rule of Republicans on the county Legislature. And our experts that we are bringing forth in our proceedings will show this,” said Onondaga County Democratic Elections Commissioner Dustin Czarny. https://spectrumlocalnews.com/nys/central-ny/politics/2022/08/18/onondaga-county-democrats-file-formal-complaint-over-new-district-maps

“I’m taking the rare step of joining this lawsuit because I believe in fair districting and I believe that the voters of Onondaga County were not served by the process,’’ Czarny said. https://www.syracuse.com/news/2022/08/democratic-lawmakers-sue-onondaga-county-claiming-legislative-maps-are-a-nullity.html

“They did not take into account the public comments that were given, they did not take into account the public calls to have a more inclusive and open public hearing schedule over a longer period of time,” according to Dustin Czarny. “They rushed to put their maps in place in effort to beat Governor HochulContinue reading “Democrats accuse Onondaga County of “racially” gerrymandered district map – CNYCentral.com”

“They made the illegal decision to have the county legislature draw their own maps and pass their own maps,” Czarny said. “Which are also illegal.” “The redistricting commission known as the reapportionment commission took only three weeks from inception to finish, to vote on maps,” he added. https://www.localsyr.com/news/local-news/democrats-in-onondaga-county-file-lawsuit-over-county-legislatures-new-voting-maps/