Dixville Notch has a tradition of first-in-the-nation voting that dates back to 1960, with the results announced just a few minutes after midnight.
the above is no longer true, but the town is still first in its state.
With such a tiny sample of voters, the results are not typically indicative of how an election will end up. But they do provide for an early curiosity.
The six registered voters of tiny Dixville Notch in New Hampshire all cast their ballots for Nikki Haley at midnight on Tuesday, giving her a clean sweep over former President Donald Trump and all the other candidates.
There were 4 republican and 2 independent voters. The latter could have chosen either republican or democratic ballots, but since the state is all in a tiff about not being the first primary anymore, the state kept Biden off the ballot (you could still write him in) and the TWO independent voters opted for the republican ballots where they chose Nikki.
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The voters were outnumbered more than 10-to-1 by reporters from every corner of the globe — not to mention by a pile of freshly baked chocolate chip cookies.
Dixville Notch has a tradition of first-in-the-nation voting that dates back to 1960, with the results announced just a few minutes after midnight.
In some previous elections, a couple of other tiny New Hampshire towns have also voted at midnight, but this year Dixville Notch went it alone.
The voting took place in a new location, the living room of Tillotson House, with the Balsams Resort undergoing renovations.
Otten said he didn’t agree with those saying the New Hampshire primary had fallen flat this year, with President Joe Biden not on the ballot and Republican contender Ron DeSantis withdrawing at the last minute.
Dixville Notch caters to snowmobilers and Nordic skiers in the winter, and golfers and hikers in the summer.
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Is this really newsworthy? Six votes?
It isn’t as important as a war starting, but it is significantly less common than, say, a mass shooting. I’d rate it along side whether groundhog Punxsutawney Phil sees his shadow: we know it is going to happen, that it has no meaningful impact, but there are still a bunch of people who want to know how the tradition turned out.