2 weeks Ago By Claire Anderson
The first results of the US presidential election have ended in a tie between Donald Trump and Kamala Harri s. Dixville Notch in New Hampshire took part in the tradition of midnight voting early Tuesday morning only for the results to come in as three for the vice president and three for the former president. Just six voters are registered this year making the entire voting process take less than a minute.
Donald Trump lines up new job after bombshell poll dashes election hopes Thousands of Georgia voters may be blocked by last minute Supreme Court ruling This long-standing tradition began nearly 65 years ago, with the first recorded instance taking place in Millsfield during the 1936 general election. Only twice in history has a presidential candidate won every vote in Dixville Notch: Richard Nixon in 1960 and Joe Biden in 2020. Tens of millions have already cast their ballots including record numbers in Georgia, North Carolina and other battleground states that could decide the winner.
The early turnout in Georgia, which has flipped between the Republican and Democratic nominees in the previous two presidential elections, has been so robust — over 4 million voters — that a top official in the secretary of state's office said the big day could look like a “ghost town” at the polls. As of Monday, Associated Press tracking of advance voting nationwide showed roughly 82 million ballots already cast — slightly more than half the total number of votes in the presidential election four years earlier. That's driven partly by Republican voters, who were casting early ballots at a higher rate than in recent previous elections after a campaign by former President Donald Trump and the Republican National Committee to counter the Democrats' longstanding advantage in the early vote.
Despite long lines in some places and a few hiccups that are common to all elections, early in-person and mail voting proceeded without any major problems. That included in the parts of western North Carolina hammered last month by Hurricane Helene. State and local election officials, benefiting from changes made by the Republican-controlled legislature, pulled off a herculean effort to ensure residents could cast their ballots as they dealt with power outages, lack of water and washed out roads.
By the time early voting in North Carolina had ended on Saturday, over 4.4 million voters — or nearly 57% of all registered voters in the state — had cast their ballots. As of Monday, turnout in the 25 western counties affected by the hurricane was even stronger at 59% of registered voters, state election board Executive Director Karen Brinson Bell said.
Brinson Bell called the voters and election workers in the hurricane-hit counties "an inspiration to us all.”.
