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Dixville Notch Kicks Off The 2024 General Election With Midnight Vote
November 5, 2024
“The small community of Dixville Notch, New Hampshire, has a unique tradition that has been ongoing for 64 years. At the stroke of midnight on election day, all registered voters in the town cast their votes. This tradition, known as Midnight Voting, began in 1960 with Neil Tillotson, a chemist turned businessman who purchased the Balsams Grand Resort Hotel in Dixville Notch in 1954…”
The first votes: Harris and Trump split in Dixville Notch, NH
November 5, 2024
“DIXVILLE N.H. – The voting in Dixville Notch fell in line with the national polls on Tuesday night in a race that couldn’t be any closer. Republican candidate Donald Trump and Democratic candidate Kamala Harris split the vote 3-3 to open Election Day in the 2024 race.
The tie is the first in Dixville Notch since 2012, when Democrat Barack Obama and Republican Mitt Romney split the vote 5-5 among the 10 registered voters…”
Harris and Trump tie in Dixville Notch midnight vote to kick off Election Day
November 5, 2024
“By tradition, all eligible voters gather at the now-dormant Balsams Hotel in Dixville Notch to cast their secret ballots once polls open at midnight. Once every ballot is cast, votes are tallied and results announced – hours before anywhere else, making it a destination for national reporters, who often outnumber the voters.
Les Otten, one of the township’s voters and the lead developer for the Balsams, called the early release of the results ‘a civics lesson for the country,’ adding that ‘if we can help people get out and understand that voting is an important part of their right as an American citizen, that’s perhaps the key to what we’re doing.’…”
12:36 a.m.: Harris and Trump tie in Dixville Notch
November 5, 2024
“Harris and Trump tie in Dixville Notch, N.H. — the first place in the nation to cast in-person ballots on Election Day. Midnight voting, a tradition in Dixville Notch dating back to 1960, closed at approximately 12:06 a.m. at The Balsams resort. Trump and Harris each won three votes. The town has six registered voters…”
Harris or Trump? Voting under way in US election after turbulent race
November 5, 2024
“The first voting site technically opened just after Monday at midnight Eastern Time (05:00 GMT Tuesday) in the tiny New Hampshire town of Dixville Notch.
Once the polls close in the evening, the results may take hours or days to be tabulated. States cannot begin reporting their vote counts until polls close…”
Trump, Harris split 6 votes cast in Dixville Notch, NH, as Election Day kicks off
November 5, 2024
“Election Day kicked off with a tie as Donald Trump and Kamala Harris split the six votes cast in a tiny New Hampshire town with a tradition of counting its ballots just after midnight.
The Republican ex-president and the Democratic vice president nabbed three votes each in the hamlet of Dixville Notch, which has been carrying on the midnight voting custom since 1960…”
First U.S. Election Result Is In, and It’s a Trump-Harris Tie
November 5, 2024
“‘This feels about normal,’ Tom Tillotson, 79, whose father created the tradition of early-morning voting at the Balsams Grand Resort Hotel in 1960, said a few minutes before the balloting started.
The tally — the first result of this election — was announced 12 minutes after midnight…”
Pets head to the polls for Election Day 2024: See photos
November 5, 2024
“A dog wearing a US flag tie walks around as the residents of Dixville Notch cast their ballots in the US election at midnight in the living room of the Tillotson House at the Balsams Grand Resort, marking the first votes in the US election, in Dixville Notch, New Hampshire on Nov. 5, 2024. The six people voting in Dixville Notch, four Republican and two undeclared, kick off Election Day at the stroke of midnight…..”
Voters face stark choice between Harris and Trump
November 5, 2024
“There was one early harbinger from the New Hampshire hamlet of Dixville Notch, which by tradition votes after midnight on Election Day. Dixville Notch split between Trump and Harris, with three votes for each….”
Small New Hampshire town kicks off US Election Day with its traditional midnight vote
November 5, 2024
“Just after midnight, the town’s six registered voters gathered in the Tillotson Room at the Balsams Resort to cast the nation’s first ballots on Election Day, continuing a 60-year tradition of being among the earliest to vote…”