Following national polls that point to a very close election, Donald Trump and Kamala Harris are so far tied in the race for president after each collected three votes among six registered voters in a midnight vote in Dixville Notch, a small town in northern Hampshire.
Unlike previous races where Democrats came out on top over Trump in Dixville Notch, this time, Trump managed to pick up new voters and tied the vote.
The local electorate consisted of four registered Republicans and two registered undeclared voters, according to Hungarian news outlet Magyar Nemzet, which covered the vote.
There were more journalists on site than voters, and the whole process took almost 10 minutes from start to finish. After the national anthem was played, each of the six voters walked into the voting booth one by one, and the votes were counted by hand and read aloud while the results were written on a white board.
Unlike the paper vote in Dixville Notch, the rest of the nation could see a chaotic vote marred by electronic voting machines, a lack of voter ID, and states already warning that it could take weeks to give final results — all in sharp contrast to other democratic nations that always announce their results on the same day.
In the New Hampshire gubernatorial election, Republican gubernatorial candidate Kelly Ayotte received five votes from Dixville Notch voters.
In the past two presidential elections, Dixville Notch voters have gone Democratic: all five of their votes went to President Joe Biden in 2020, and four of their seven votes went to Hillary Clinton in 2016.
The tradition goes back nearly 60 years, but this year Dixville Notch was the only New Hampshire town to vote at midnight. Officials from two other towns — Millsfield and Hart’s Location — that traditionally join midnight voting have decided to hold traditional daytime voting instead.
