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Nikki Haley sweeps Dixville Notch’s primary, winning all 6 votes

Jan 23, 2024, 5:23 AM | Updated: 5:45 am

Republican presidential candidate former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley speaks at a town hall campaign...

Former U.N. Ambassador and then-Republican presidential candidate, Nikki Haley speaks at a town hall campaign event in Manchester, New Hampshire. (Photo: Robert F. Butaky, AP)

(Photo: Robert F. Butaky, AP)

DIXVILLE NOTCH, N.H. (AP) — The six registered voters of tiny Dixville Notch in New Hampshire all cast their ballots for  at midnight on Tuesday, giving her a clean sweep over former President  and all the other candidates.

The resort town was the first place in the nation to vote in . The voters were outnumbered more than 10-to-1 by reporters from every corner of the globe — not to mention by a pile of freshly baked chocolate chip cookies.

Dixville Notch has a tradition of first-in-the-nation voting that dates back to 1960, with the results announced just a few minutes after midnight.

With such a tiny sample of voters, the results are not typically indicative of how an election will end up. But they do provide for an early curiosity.

In some previous elections, a couple of other tiny New Hampshire towns have also voted at midnight, but this year Dixville Notch went it alone.

The voting took place in a new location, the living room of Tillotson House, with the Balsams Resort undergoing renovations. It made for a congenial setting, with an 11-month-old golden retriever named Maxine greeting media and voters.

Les Otten, the principal owner and developer of the Balsams Resort, said he was excited to cast his ballot.

“It’s special. It really is,” Otten said. “It’s what ought to happen in every community in the United States, where there is 100% participation, everybody votes. None of the six of us can complain about the outcome of the election, because we’ve participated.”

Otten said he didn’t agree with those saying the New Hampshire primary had fallen flat this year, with President  not on the ballot and  at the last minute.

“It always does boil down to just a couple of people at the end of the day,” Otten said. “We’ve got two viable candidates on the Republican side.”

Dixville Notch caters to snowmobilers and Nordic skiers in the winter, and golfers and hikers in the summer. For the primary, it had four registered Republicans and two undeclared voters.

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