Syracuse, N.Y. — Nearly 1,900 people in Onondaga County cast ballots Saturday on the first day of in-person early voting for the 2025 local elections , according to Dustin Czarny, Onondaga County’s Democratic election commissioner.

Polls were open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and despite the rain, voters showed up. It was the second-biggest opening day of early voting during a local election year since the county started offering it in 2019.

In total, 1,898 voters turned out across the county’s 10 early voting sites, Czarny reported. That’s 19% higher than the first day of early voting in 2023, the last year voters went to the polls to pick local leaders.

“This is more evidence that early voting continues to grow,” Czarny said Saturday on social media.

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