U.S. Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton beat her rival Republican nominee Donald Trump in two of the three towns in New Hampshire that went to polls at midnight Tuesday. The former Secretary of State beat the billionaire in Dixville Notch and Hart’s Location but Trump won in Millsfield.

New Hampshire law allows communities with less than 100 residents to open polls at midnight and close them once all registered voters have cast their ballots. In Dixville Notch, which has been voting at midnight every election since 1960, Clinton beat Trump four votes to two.

Independent Gary Johnson won one vote and Mitt Romney turned up as a surprise write-in candidate winning one vote. The number of reporters observing the voting process outnumbered the number of voters, reports said.

With the Dixville Notch results out, Election Day is officially underway. The town overwhelmingly voted Republican till 2008 when it voted for then Sen. Barack Obama. In the 2012 race, the vote ended with a tie between Obama and Romney.

In Millsfield, located 12 miles from Dixville Notch, Trump beat Clinton 16 votes to four. Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders won one vote. Although Millsfield began midnight voting around 1952, it suspended the practice in the 1960s. The practice was revived last year in honor of the 100th anniversary of the New Hampshire primary.

Meanwhile, Hart’s Location, which was the first to begin the midnight voting practice in 1948, voted in favor of Clinton who beat Trump 17 votes to 14. Johnson secured three votes while two votes went to Sanders. The town voted for Obama both in 2008 and in 2012.

Trump held his final rally before Election Day Monday night in Grand Rapids Michigan hours before polls were to open. “Go to bed right now. Get up and vote,” he urged his supporters.

Meanwhile, Clinton held her final rally in Raleigh, North Carolina, where she was joined by her husband and former President Bill Clinton and their daughter, Chelsea. Singers Lady Gaga and Jon Bon Jovi were also present to show their support for the candidate.</s>DIXVILLE, N.H. — Donald Trump is off to a very early lead in the 2016 presidential election, winning over the voters of three New Hampshire precincts by a 32-25 margin over Hillary Clinton.

Polls in the tiny New Hampshire towns of Dixville, Hart’s Location and Millsfield opened just after midnight Tuesday and closed as soon as everyone had voted. These die-hard voters are proud to have the first word on the big vote.

Clinton won more votes in Dixville and Hart’s Location, but Trump was the overwhelming favorite in Millsfield, with a 16-4 edge.

Libertarian Gary Johnson picked up three votes. Bernie Sanders, John Kasich and 2012 Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney got write-in votes.

Under New Hampshire state law, communities with fewer than 100 voters can get permission to open their polls at midnight and close them as soon as all registered voters have cast their ballots.</s>Hillary Clinton is off to a very early lead in the 2016 presidential election, winning over the voters of Dixville, New Hampshire, by a 4-2 margin over Donald Trump.

Polls in the tiny New Hampshire towns of Dixville, Hart’s Location and Millsfield opened just after midnight Tuesday and closed as soon as everyone had voted. These die-hard voters are proud to have the first word on the big vote.

While Clinton won half the Dixville votes, Libertarian Gary Johnson took one and 2012 Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney got a write-in vote.

Under New Hampshire state law, communities with fewer than 100 voters can get permission to open their polls at midnight and close them as soon as all registered voters have cast their ballots.</s>DIXVILLE, N.H. — Donald Trump is off to a very early lead in the 2016 presidential election, winning over the voters of three New Hampshire precincts by a 32-25 margin over Hillary Clinton.

Polls in the tiny New Hampshire towns of Dixville, Hart's Location and Millsfield opened just after midnight Tuesday and closed as soon as everyone had voted. These die-hard voters are proud to have the first word on the big vote.

Clinton won more votes in Dixville and Hart's Location, but Trump was the overwhelming favorite in Millsfield, with a 16-4 edge.

Libertarian Gary Johnson picked up three votes. Bernie Sanders, John Kasich and 2012 Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney got write-in votes.

Under New Hampshire state law, communities with fewer than 100 voters can get permission to open their polls at midnight and close them as soon as all registered voters have cast their ballots.</s>DIXVILLE, N.H. — Donald Trump is off to a very early lead in the 2016 presidential election, winning over the voters of three New Hampshire precincts by a 32-25 margin over Hillary Clinton.

Polls in the tiny New Hampshire towns of Dixville, Hart’s Location and Millsfield opened just after midnight Tuesday and closed as soon as everyone had voted. These die-hard voters are proud to have the first word on the big vote.

Clinton won more votes in Dixville and Hart’s Location, but Trump was the overwhelming favorite in Millsfield, with a 16-4 edge.

Libertarian Gary Johnson picked up three votes. Bernie Sanders, John Kasich and 2012 Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney got write-in votes.

Under New Hampshire state law, communities with fewer than 100 voters can get permission to open their polls at midnight and close them as soon as all registered voters have cast their ballots.</s>AND they’re off! Kind of.

Voting has begun in the 2016 US Presidential election and it’s not been the smoothest of starts.

Due to an anomaly in the voting rules in New Hampshire, towns with a population of fewer than 100 can begin voting at midnight, rather than waiting until the morning.

Tradition dictates that Dixville Notch is the first to exercise their democratic right.

So seven of the good people of the town, close to the Canadian border, patiently lined up to vote.

It didn’t exactly go to plan.

Live on TV across the world, they flubbed it.

The voter and returning officer both held the voting slip tight, a few centimetres above the ballot box, as the seconds slipped by to midnight. There were two hands to ensure it didn’t fall in to the box early.

But when the clock ticked over to Tuesday, the simple task of releasing the slip fell in a heap.

Despite the ballot box being directly below them, and having more than a minute to survey the right trajectory to get the paper in the slot, they failed.

They failed miserably.

The paper refused to go in, then just fell on top of the ballot box as onlookers groaned.

“They had one job,” laughed the CNN presenter. “One job”.

Eventually, as panic mounted, the returning officer took matters into his own hand, ripped the slip from the voter, and shoved it in himself.

If you want to get a job done right, it seems, do it yourself.

Despite the debacle, Hillary Clinton will be pleased with the result. According to the votes cast in this one town in this swing state, four voted for her with just two for rival Donald Trump.

Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson won one vote, and there was a write-in vote for Mitt Romney, the losing Republican presidential candidate in 2012. Now that the eight residents have voted the booth has closed.

Two in two other New Hampshire locations, Hart’s Location and Millsfield, also opened just after midnight on Tuesday and closed as soon as everyone had voted. These die-hard voters are proud to have the first word on the big vote.

While Clinton won more votes in Dixville and Hart’s Location, Trump was the overwhelming favourite in Millsfield, with a 16-4 edge.

Under New Hampshire state law, communities with fewer than 100 voters can get permission to open their polls at midnight and close them as soon as all registered voters have cast their ballots.

The main polling booths open in the American’s north east at 6am.

— With AP</s>DIXVILLE, N.H. (AP) — Hillary Clinton is off to a very early lead in the 2016 presidential election, winning over the voters of Dixville, New Hampshire, by a 4-2 margin over Donald Trump.

Polls in the tiny New Hampshire towns of Dixville, Hart’s Location and Millsfield opened just after midnight Tuesday and closed as soon as everyone had voted. These die-hard voters are proud to have the first word on the big vote.

While Clinton won half the Dixville votes, Libertarian Gary Johnson took one and 2012 Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney got a write-in vote.

Under New Hampshire state law, communities with fewer than 100 voters can get permission to open their polls at midnight and close them as soon as all registered voters have cast their ballots.</s>Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton has worn Dixville Notch midnight vote, according to CNN. She had 4, Donald Trump 2, Gary Johnson 1. With residents voting and five times as many reporters watching, Dixville Notch has spoken.

On a frigid night in the largely forgotten region about halfway between the Maine and Canadian borders, the small northern New Hampshire town came alive for several minutes of kitschy democratic conflict. This latest round of wee hours voting extends a tradition that traces back more than a half-century.

With the results in from Dixville Notch this long-awaited Election Day is officially underway, and sure as the Earth turns on its axis, the end of the 2016 presidential contest seems impossibly closer.

The Granite State’s tight Senate race will enter Election Day deadlocked, with Democratic Governor Maggie Hassan and incumbent Republican Sen. Kelly Ayotte each Dixville notching 4 votes.

Tuesday night’s result will hearten superstitious Clinton supporters. The town’s small collection of dedicated voters have correctly picked the eventual winner in three of the last four contests. In 2000 and 2004 it broke for George W. Bush and in 2008 it delivered a victory for Barack Obama.

Its more recent results have been less predictive. Romney and Obama split 10 votes in 2012, and John Kasich edged out Trump in this year’s GOP primary kick-off. Nearby Millsfield, which also voted at midnight, delivered a big win for Trump, who scored 16 votes to Clinton’s four.

One voter wrote-in Bernie Sanders, the New Hampshire Democratic primary winner. Meanwhile, Clinton rallied to a narrow victory in Hart’s Location, outscoring Trump by a 17-14 margin, with Johnson gaining another three votes and two more voters volunteering Sanders.

With overnight in-person voting completed, Trump carries a seven-vote lead over Clinton, 32-25. Millsfield in 2016 is looking to horn in on what has been a calling card for Dixville Notch since 1960, when John F. Kennedy shutout Richard Nixon, 9 votes to nil. Hart’s Location, too, has a tradition here, one that traces back to 1948, when voting began at dawn, and then a move to midnight in 1952. But they quit in 1964, leaving Dixville Notch as the leading hours-after-primetime player.

Wayne Urso, Millsfield’s ambitious election official, is hoping to displace Dixville Notch. He spent the morning talking trash about his very-early voting rivals. “We actually have a population here,” Urso told CNN. “They may be registered to vote there (in Dixville Notch), but if you ask them where they live, you’ll find that nobody actually lives there.”

The Dixville Notch voting takes place in the storied Ballot Room of the Balsams Grand Resort Hotel, which has been closed to tourists for five years as new owners work to revamp the once bustling ski stop. Millsfield’s decision to take on the embattled establishment was made, he said, during a post-primary skull session.

“We had a meeting of all the voters — because all the voters can probably fit in my living room,” Urso said. Asked if they wanted to continue midnight voting in the general election, “Everyone said, ‘Yeah.’ “

But why this year — why call attention to the town during this especially divisive season? “We don’t have that problem in Millsfield,” Urso said of his isolated provincial town. “We almost never talk about politics amongst ourselves. Whether it’s divisive across the country … it doesn’t pertain to us.”</s>Breaking - Early results show Trump is leading Clinton in New Hampshire

Donald Trump has 52.5 percent to Hillary Clinton's 41 percent in early results out of New Hampshire, according to CNN. New Hampshire has four electoral votes. The candidate who receives at least 270 Electoral College votes becomes the next president.</s>DIXVILLE, N.H. – Hillary Clinton is off to a very early lead in the 2016 presidential election, winning over the voters of Dixville, N.H., by a 4-2 margin over Donald Trump.

Polls in the tiny New Hampshire towns of Dixville, Hart’s Location and Millsfield opened just after midnight Tuesday and closed as soon as everyone had voted. These die-hard voters are proud to have the first word on the big vote.

While Clinton won half the Dixville votes, Libertarian Gary Johnson took 1 and 2012 Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney got a write-in vote.

Under New Hampshire state law, communities with fewer than 100 voters can get permission to open their polls at midnight and close them as soon as all registered voters have cast their ballots.
Results from several of New Hampshire's small midnight voting towns are released, showing marginal victories for Clinton in Dixville Notch and Hart's Location, while Trump won significantly more votes in Millsfield.