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The town's ~25-odd registered voters all gather to cast their ballots at midnight, and the polls are closed one minute later. Then the votes are counted.

DIXVILLE NOTCH, N.H. (AP) — Voters in the tiny New Hampshire village famed for casting the first ballots in the nation’s first presidential primary have found themselves in a tie between Republicans Mitt Romney and Jon Huntsman. Nine ballots were cast in New Hampshire’s Dixville Notch just after midnight. Romney and Huntsman received two votes each. Coming in second with one vote apiece were Newt Gingrich and Ron Paul. For the Democrats, President Barack Obama received three votes. The nine residents who cast their ballots include three registered Republicans and two registered Democrats. Four other voters haven’t declared a party.

John McCain - 6 Barack Obama - 15

Dixville Notch is an unincorporated small village in the Dixville township of Coos County, New Hampshire, USA. The town is known for being one of the first places to declare its results [at midnight] for the New Hampshire Presidential primary and U.S. Presidential elections. -snip- 2000Democratic Primary: (6 voters) William W. Bradley - 4 Albert A. Gore Jr. - 2 Republican Primary: (23 voters) George W. Bush - 12 John S. McCain III - 10 Malcolm S. "Steve" Forbes Jr. - 1 General Election: (27 votes) George W. Bush - 21 Albert A. Gore Jr. - 5 Ralph Nader -...

Clark Wins Inital N.H. Primary Votes Jan 27, 12:34 AM (ET) By STEPHEN FROTHINGHAM DIXVILLE NOTCH, N.H. (AP) - Wesley Clark won the initial votes cast Tuesday morning in New Hampshire's Democratic presidential primary, the first to be counted in a state primary this year. Clark had been the only major candidate to visit two of the state's smallest hamlets - Dixville Notch and Hart's Location - where residents cast and count their votes in the early minutes of Election Day. Clark won Dixville with 8 votes. Sen. John Kerry had 3, Sen. John Edwards 2 and Howard Dean and...