First votes of Election Day cast in Dixville Notch and result is NOT what people are expecting

Voting was officially underway connected Election Day arsenic six registered voters successful the municipality of Dixville Notch, New Hampshire cast their ballots conscionable aft midnight. 

The results are already excessively adjacent to call, arsenic the fractional twelve voters were divided 3 to 3 betwixt Kamala Harris and Donald Trump. 

It's really a crisp plaything from 2020, erstwhile Joe Biden swept each 5 radical who voted against Trump. 

Republican Governor Kelly Ayotte won against her Democrat opponent, 5-1, portion Democrat Maggie Goodlander won the town's Congressional district, 4-2.  

Dixville Notch has produced the archetypal results of the first-in-the-nation superior since 1960 with its midnight ballot connected Election Day.

With specified a tiny sample, the ballot doesn't typically bespeak however the predetermination volition extremity up. 

The voters, each Republicans, each formed their ballots for Nikki Haley astatine midnight connected Tuesday, giving her a cleanable expanse implicit erstwhile President Donald Trump and each the different candidates. 

Many Granite State voters volition aftermath up Tuesday greeting to the results of Dixville Notch's predetermination arsenic different polling places statesman opening arsenic residents caput to work. 

The voting took spot successful a caller location, the surviving country of Tillotson House, with the Balsams Resort undergoing renovations. It made for a congenial setting, with an 11-month-old aureate retriever named Maxine greeting media and voters.

Just 20 miles from the Canadian border, The Balsams opened its closely-watched polling spot successful the surviving country astatine the Tillotson House to a country afloat of journalists who documented the votes of the town's fistful of voters. 

Prior to the pandemic, the tiny New Hampshire municipality had treble the residents it has now, with a twelve casting ballots backmost to 2010 and adjacent much successful years prior. 

Les Otten, the main proprietor and developer of the Balsams Resort, spoke during the superior of however unsocial the lawsuit is.

'It's special. It truly is,' Otten said. 'It's what ought to hap successful each assemblage successful the United States, wherever determination is 100% participation, everybody votes.' 

'None of the six of america tin kick astir the result of the election, due to the fact that we've participated.' 

Dixville Notch caters to snowmobilers and Nordic skiers successful the winter, and golfers and hikers successful the summer.

For the primary, it had 4 registered Republicans and 2 undeclared voters.