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发帖数: 609 | 1 As the world waits with bated breath for the results of Tuesday's
contentious presidential election, its eyes turned briefly to three sleepy
hamlets in rural New Hampshire, as their residents — less than 100 total —
became the first in the nation to cast their ballots.
In Dixville Notch, N.H., Hillary Clinton beat Donald Trump four votes to two
. Libertarian Gary Johnson received one vote, and Mitt Romney received a
surprise write-in ballot.
According to New Hampshire law, communities with less than 100 voters can
open their polls at midnight and close them as soon as all registered voters
have cast their ballots.
Don't read too much into the results from these towns. They lean
conservative and normally vote Republican. Dixville voted for the Republican
in every election since 1960 — including Barry Goldwater who lost in a
landslide to Lyndon Johnson — until going for Obama in 2008, and splitting
the vote between Romney and Obama in 2012.
Since reviving midnight voting, Hart's Location voted for Dole in 1996, Bush
in 2000 and 2004, and Obama in 2008 and 2012.
Dixville had predicted every Republican nominee since 1968 (counting ties in
1980 and 2012), but that streak came to a crashing halt when Donald Trump
walked into town as John Kasich edged out the future nominee 3-2.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2016/11/08/midnight-new-hampshire-voting/93455396/ |
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