When Dixville Notch runs, so does New Hampshire?
That’s what former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley is hoping for after the small village near the Canadian border continued a five-decade-old midnight voting tradition early Tuesday.
All six eligible voters in the precinct – four registered Republicans and two undeclared voters – pulled the lever for Haley, 52, who is desperate for a surprise victory in the Granite State to halt what many observers see as former President Donald Trump’s relentless march to the country. that. The GOP nomination.
Trump, meanwhile, will be hoping that major recent history repeats itself.
Dixville Notch has not predicted the outcome of the New Hampshire Republican primary since 2008, when Sen. Arizona’s John McCain won the village, the primary, and the eventual GOP nomination.
Before 2008, the last time Dixville Notch predicted a GOP primary was 1992, when President George HW Bush received nine of 14 Republican votes and fended off a challenge from Pat Buchanan.
Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley walks to the stage as she is introduced at a campaign event on January 22, 2024, in Salem, New Hampshire. Getty Images
In 2016, Trump was defeated in Dixville Notch, 3-2, by Ohio Governor John Kasich, but went on to win the primary by 19 percentage points over the Buckeye Stater.
Midnight voting at Dixville Notch began with the 1960 general election as the brainchild of Neil Tillotson, owner of the nearby Balsams resort.
The night also saw a clean sweep at the ballot box, with Republican Richard Nixon taking all nine votes over Democrat John F. Kennedy.
A sign showing six registered voters in the living room of the Tillotson House, ready to receive media and voters for the nation’s first midnight vote at Balsams Grand Resort in Dixville Notch, New Hampshire, on January 22, 2024. AFP via Getty Images
Balsams closed in 2011, but the midnight vote tradition has continued — with Tillotson’s former home hosting a celebration on Tuesday.
Dixville Notch is one of three locations in New Hampshire where midnight voting is allowed, but the other two will not join the tradition in this primary election.
In the town of Hart’s Location, nestled in the White Mountains two hours’ drive south of Dixville Notch, moderator Les Schoof chose not to vote at midnight in favor of keeping the more frequent voting hours of 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a campaign event in Laconia, New Hampshire, on January 22, 2024. AP
Schoof cited several factors in his decision, according to a statement on the city’s website. Among them is the likelihood that President Biden’s absence on the Democratic ballot will require extra time to count dozens of write-in ballots, and the fact that the city is short on supervisors to help count ballots and check voter rolls.
Officials at the Hart location — which started midnight voting in 1952 to allow local railroad workers more access to the polls, abandoned the practice 12 years later, and picked it up again in 1996 — opened up the possibility of bringing midnight voting back to the public this year. election Nov. 5
Another location that allows midnight voting, the neighboring town of Millsfield in Dixville Notch, chose not to do so out of respect for residents who prefer not to have to set their alarms to cast ballots.
A sign inside the Tillotson House during preparations for the midnight vote on Jan. 22, 2024, in Dixville Notch, New Hampshire. Getty Images
“There will be more absentee ballots than actual people there counting the votes,” town Selectman Shawn Cote told New Hampshire Public Radio last month.
“The three of us will be present to count the absentee ballots and maybe the three of us will vote.”
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