In the News: Primary day in Central New York sparks debate over voter access

In this article, published to NCC News by Thomas Baia, the Onondaga County Democratic elections commissioner, Dustin Czarny, discusses how the county's Board of Elections pushes for fairness and integrity in everything they do. “Every step, every process that we have here in New York and at the Onondaga County Board of Elections is bipartisan,” he said. “So we have two sets of eyes on everything we do.”

David Green, a representative from Unite NY, spoke for broader election reform that would stop excluding millions of New Yorkers in the primary elections by introducing an open primary system. “These are things that everyone is paying for,” Green said. “And yet they can’t participate in half of elections. They can only participate in general elections, not the primary.”

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