Doublechecking Suffolk election results

The Suffolk County Board of Elections’ new website may cause some confusion if you don’t look closely. Just because a race has all of its election districts reported, does not mean all the votes for those precincts have been counted and posted online.

Visitors to the website should click the “view results by election district” link to see whether all the votes have been tallied into the unofficial results, election officials said.

“Election night complete” means votes from that district from Election Day have been counted. “Partially reported” means that votes reflect an incomplete count.

Suffolk election officials declined Newsday’s request to share how many people voted in the election.

Close races will receive a hand recount. Those races must be within a half-percent margin of total votes, or 20 votes, whichever is less.