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Experts: Voter turnout lowest in recent memory
Photo credit: Michael E. Ach | Voter Donna Morrissey pulls a voting booth handle while holding her daughter Julia, 3, at the Massapequa Park Village Hall in Massapequa Park. Tues., (March 15, 2005)
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2009 Long Island elections
Despite some hotly contested local races, Long Island voter turnout Tuesday was generally one of the lowest in recent memory and magnified the effect of anti-incumbent voters who did show up at the polls, experts said.
"The turnout in the western towns didn't seem as great as in the past," said Thomas Knobel, assistant to Suffolk County Board of Election Commissioner Cathy L. Richter Geier,...
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