The first results of the American presidential elections are known: in the small village of Dixville Notch in the state of New Hampshire, both candidates received exactly the same number of votes. Both Democratic candidate Kamala Harris and Republican Donald Trump each received three votes.
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The six voters of Dixville Notch, a hamlet in the woods of New Hampshire on the northeastern border with Canada, went to vote at midnight on Tuesday. They thus continue a tradition that was established in 1960 and the hamlet was given the title First in the Nation yielded. Voting took only a few minutes, as did counting the votes and announcing the results: three votes for Kamala Harris and three votes for Donald Trump.
The results were announced on a handwritten board shortly after midnight (7am in Belgium). The turnout was 100 percent.
With the exception of the neighboring village of Millsfield, which also votes at night, most polling stations on the east coast open Tuesday at 12 noon Belgian time or 1 p.m. Belgian time. The electoral law of this small northeastern state allows municipalities with fewer than 100 inhabitants to open their polling stations as early as midnight and close them once everyone has voted on the electoral list. In 2020, Dixville Notch’s five electors voted unanimously — for only the second time since 1960 — for Joe Biden.
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