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More than 26,700 mail-in ballot requests have been received in Onondaga County, with 6,800 already returned.

The commissioners presented a bi-partisan budget plan to add six workers to handle the growing volume of work.

Onondaga County elections officials will be performing a rescan of all 9,700 early voting ballots after about 800 votes were not reported in election night results. Commissioner Dustin Czarny says a routine ballot reconciliation turned up the discrepancy.

A political science professor at Colgate University says New York’s antiquated election system clearly wasn’t up to the task of handling the razor-thin…