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US elections: A historic tie - in the first
election results
Tuesday November 06, 2012 09:11:00 PM,
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Washington:
It's a tie between President Barack Obama and his Republican rival
Mitt Romney -- in the first results in the presidential election
from a remote hamlet in New Hampshire.
Both received five votes each in Dixville Notch in the state's
northeast corner, which has opened its polls shortly after
midnight each election day since 1960, but Tuesday's tie was the
first in its history, CNN reported.
The result was unexpected, town clerk Dick Erwin was quoted as
saying.
The hamlet, home to about a dozen residents, has drawn national
media attention for being the first place in the country to make
its presidential preferences known.
Dixville Notch has had 100 percent voter turnout since it started
its first-in-the-nation voting tradition.
Under New Hampshire voting law, a polling place can be closed once
all registered voters have officially cast their ballots. With all
10 registered voters on hand, the community had its tally shortly
after midnight.
However, since 1996, another small New Hampshire town - Hart's
Location - reinstated its practice from the 1940s and also began
opening its polls at midnight.
The result there? Obama 23; Romney 9.
Although the community typically leans Republican, residents went
for Obama in 2008 - the first time the majority of folks in
Dixville Notch went for a Democrat in 40 years.
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