Dixville Notch: The first Election Day outcome was in small New Hampshire city with simply six voters. Here’s the way it went | EUROtoday

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The US 2024 election outcomes are in for one tiny New Hampshire city – and it’s a tie.

The six residents of Dixville Notch, close to the Canadian border, waited for simply 12 minutes to be taught the outcomes of their midnight vote.

Much like the remainder of the nation, the outcome was deadlocked; three votes for Donald Trump and three for Kamala Harris.

Four years in the past Dixville solid 5 votes and all went for Joe Biden, although 4 of the residents are Republicans. This yr three of the 4 Republicans voted for Trump, and one switched sides to vote for Harris.

Dixville Notch started holding midnight votes as a continuation of a practice began in close by Hart’s Location and Millsfield, The Guardian stories. Those cities’ midnight vote was carried out to accommodate rail employees who needed to be at work earlier than regular voting hours started.

The custom started in Dixville Notch within the Nineteen Sixties, when native resort proprietor Neil Tilotson hosted the early-morning vote at his enterprise, inviting journalists to remain the night time and use his telephones to report on the outcomes. All six of the residents who voted early Tuesday stay within the former resort.

Dixville Notch’s residents picked Hillary Clinton 4-2 to beat Trump in 2016 and went all in on Biden in 2020, however this yr Trump really picked up help within the township.

One resident, Scott Maxwell, advised the New York Times that he did not see a cut up vote coming this yr, and stated that even he was shocked that he voted for Trump.

Les Otten, one other resident, was the Republican who flipped to solid a vote for Harris.

The 75-year-old advised CNN earlier than the vote that he felt as if Trump needed Americans to pledge allegiance to him.

“Nowhere in the Pledge of Allegiance does it say anything about pledging your allegiance to a person,” Otten stated. “And I think at the end of the day, Trump has made it clear that you need to pledge allegiance to him, and he alone can fix this, and that is as anti-democratic as I can understand.”