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Experts: Voter turnout lowest in recent memory

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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