reported<\/a> that the rural township is at the northern tip of New Hampshire, on the border between the US and Canada.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n
As has been done since 1960, the polls opened and closed just after midnight ET. Four Republicans and two people who hadn\u2019t said they were voting took part.<\/p>\n
Even though the number of people living in Dixville Notch is decreasing, the number of babies born there each year is still a success story for local leaders and a reason to smile for political junkies who want to get an early start on the day\u2019s events.<\/p>\n
As usual, every one qualified to vote goes to the now-dead Balsams Hotel in Dixville Notch at midnight to cast their secret ballots. Once all the votes are counted, the results are made public hours before they are made public anywhere else. This makes the polls a popular place for national reporters, who often outnumber the voters.<\/p>\n
A Balsams lead developer and voter in the township, Les Otten, called the early release of the results \u201ca civics lesson for the country.\u201d He also said, \u201cIf we can help people get out and understand that voting is an important part of their right as an American citizen, that\u2019s perhaps the key to what we\u2019re doing.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Otten said that the project to rebuild will likely start next summer. He then added, \u201cWe might as well use our right to vote while we\u2019re here, since we own property and have, you know, our toothbrushes in our bathrooms.\u201d<\/p>\n
Millsfield and Hart\u2019s Location, which are both close by and in the White Mountains, were the first places to offer midnight voting before Dixville Notch. They haven\u2019t done it every year, though, and they won\u2019t be doing it this year either. An episode of Aaron Sorkin\u2019s \u201cWest Wing\u201d called \u201cHartsfield\u2019s Landing\u201d showed a made-up version of the three neighbors.<\/p>\n
In the last two presidential elections, voters in Dixville Notch have backed the Democratic nominee.<\/p>\n
In 2020, all five votes in the township went to President Joe Biden.<\/p>\n
In 2016, Hillary Clinton won four of the seven votes cast, while two went to Trump and one to Gary Johnson, the Libertarian candidate.<\/p>\n
In the January GOP primary, four registered Republicans and two independents voted for former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley without a single negative vote.<\/p>\n
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