Polls are opening across New Hampshire, though the exact hours vary from place to place.
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Most polling locations will be open from 7 a.m.to 7 p.m. EST on Tuesday. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., double-digit leads in New Hampshire’s respective Republican and Democratic presidential primaries heading into Tuesday’s election.
Yard signs stuck in snow banks are a New Hampshire primary staple, but that was a rare sight until the final days of the campaign.
Undeclared voters will be allowed to choose either a Democrat or a Republican ballot. Democrats are not expected to show up to the polls in the record numbers they did eight years ago.
Dixville, located about 20 miles from the Canadian border, exists as a town only for voting purposes.
Former owner Neil Tillotson started the midnight voting tradition in 1960, likely at the suggestion of a news photographer looking for an advantage in getting his pictures out to newspapers ahead of his rivals. Because of the renovations, the nine current residents voted in another building on the property, the Hale House.
Donald Trump appeared poised to clinch his first victory in Tuesday’s first-in-the-nation primary following a humbling second-place finish in the Iowa caucuses, speaking confidently about his chances Monday while his Republican opponents mostly attacked each other.
With New Hampshire voters known for waiting until the bitter end to make up their minds in the presidential primary, it’s hard to gauge how accurate polls can be heading into the election, Scala said.
The first few votes out of these rural Granite State towns don’t tend to accurately predict the state’s overall winners, but they do give their choice candidates an early boost, albeit briefly, while results in the rest of the state are still being counted.
Sanders rebounded in Hart’s Location, topping Clinton 12 to 7.
Tom Tillotson, the 71-year-old town moderator who has run the midnight voting for decades (and voted for Kasich this time), said “of course it’s fun” to keep the tradition alive.
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The Union Leader says Clinton got 2 votes there to Sanders’ one, but on the Republican side, Ted Cruz won easily with 9 votes, compared to Trump with 3 and Bush, Christie, Kasich, Rubio, Carly Fiorina and Rand Paul, who suspended his campaign after Iowa, with a vote apeice.
