Dixville Notch, United States:
Voters within the US hamlet of Dixville Notch launched Election Day within the first minutes of Tuesday with a tied vote, mirroring the extremely shut nationwide polls within the White Home race.
Kamala Harris and Donald Trump every received three ballots within the tiny neighborhood within the northeastern state of New Hampshire which for many years has kicked off Election Day on the stroke of midnight Monday — hours earlier than the remainder of the nation’s polling stations open.
The Democratic vice chairman and Republican ex-president have been battling in a tense and exceptionally shut race, with opinion polls largely tied.
To a gathered crowd of journalists, the vote opened with a rendition of the US nationwide anthem carried out on an accordion.
Electoral legal guidelines in New Hampshire permit municipalities with fewer than 100 residents to open their polling stations at midnight and to shut them when all registered voters have fulfilled their civic responsibility.
Dixville Notch’s residents voted unanimously for then candidate Joe Biden in 2020, reportedly solely the second presidential hopeful to get all of the votes because the midnight voting custom started in 1960.
Most polling stations on the East Coast will open at 6:00 or 7:00 am (1100 or 1200 GMT) on Tuesday.
Dixville Notch voters handed a shock unanimous victory to Republican White Home hopeful Nikki Haley in New Hampshire’s main in January.
Haley finally give up the race attributable to an insurmountable Trump lead — however Tuesday’s vote exhibits that three voters opted to not again the billionaire within the normal election.
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