The outcomes are already in from two New Hampshire cities the place voters famously head to the polls simply after the stroke of midnight on Electi
The outcomes are already in from two New Hampshire cities the place voters famously head to the polls simply after the stroke of midnight on Election Day.
In Dixville Notch, the place a handful of masked residents voted shortly after midnight on Tuesday, all 5 votes for president went to Joseph R. Biden Jr., the Democratic nominee. He’s the primary presidential candidate to comb the overall election vote in Dixville Notch for the reason that midnight voting custom started there in 1960, when Richard M. Nixon gained all 9 votes over John F. Kennedy.
The opposite northern New Hampshire city that voted across the similar time on Tuesday, Millsfield, favored President Trump by 16 votes to five.
A 3rd city, Hart’s Location, canceled its conventional midnight voting this yr due to the coronavirus pandemic. The 48 voters there should wait till the morning like everybody else.
Antsy journalists and political sorts usually look to those New Hampshire cities for clues as to how the election will unfold throughout the nation, however they’ve a spotty observe report. Whereas Millsfield voted for Mr. Trump in 2016, Dixville Notch went for Hillary Clinton.
And within the Democratic main election — which additionally kicks off in New Hampshire — Dixville Notch solid three of its 5 votes this yr for Michael R. Bloomberg, the previous mayor of New York. He suspended his marketing campaign lower than a month later.