The six voters in the small town of Dixville Notch, New Hampshire, cast their ballots at midnight Tuesday, continuing a tradition established since 1960, earning it the title of “First in the Nation.”
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Like the polls, voters in the village, located on the northeastern border of the United States with Canada, were unable to decide between the American presidential candidates.
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The vote took only a few minutes, as did the counting and announcement of the results: three votes for Democrat Kamala Harris and three votes for Republican Donald Trump.
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Apart from the neighboring village of Millsfield which also votes at night, most polling stations on the east coast opened their doors at 6 a.m. or 7 a.m.
The electoral laws of this small northeastern state allow municipalities with fewer than 100 inhabitants to open their polling stations at midnight and to be able to close them when all the people registered on the electoral lists have voted.
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In 2020, the five electors of Dixville Notch voted unanimously – for only the second time since 1960 – for Joe Biden.
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