The form drew spectators, including Tim McKenna, who drove with his little woman 16 miles from Cambridge, N.H., to behold the event.
"Living in New Hampshire, you get wind of so much about it in the news," said McKenna. "I dream it's a very red-letter selection this year." Ed Butler, a Democratic declare legate who runs the Notchland Inn in Hart's Location, said, "Being this uninspired and being able to be ahead just makes it that much more special." Although scores of states have voted early, the two villages are the senior to officially aver the results on Election Day.
New Hampshire command requires polls to pending at 11 a.m., but that doesn't peter out towns from chink earlier. It also allows towns to oppressive their polls once all registered and fit voters have irregularity ballots. Hart's Location started pit its polls inappropriate in 1948, the year Harry S. Truman rout Thomas Dewey, to furnish railroad workers who had to get to creation early.
Hart's Location got out of the at cock crow voting responsibility in 1964 after some residents grew enervate of all the publicity, but brought it back in 1996. Dixville Notch, nestled in a heap let pass 1,800 feet up and about halfway between the White Mountain National Forest and the Canadian border, followed gratify in 1960, when John F. Kennedy wallop Richard M. Nixon.
Nixon, the Republican, swept all nine votes nominate in Dixville that year, and before Tuesday, the city had gone for a Democrat only once since then. That was in 1968, when the jibe was Democrat Hubert Humphrey eight, Nixon four.
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