Donald Trump finally concedes defeat to Joe Biden (Video)
Joe Biden secured the first Election Day victory while Trump took the second as two tiny New Hampshire towns with a combined population of 26 announced the first US results just after midnight.
Dixville Notch posted its final tally – with all five votes going to Biden – on a handwritten poster board at 12.03am on Tuesday, as most Americans get some shut-eye before polls open nationwide this morning.
The town near the Canadian border has been among the first in the US to reveal election results for the past 60 years, handing Hillary Clinton one of her first wins in 2016.
Meanwhile 12 miles away in Millsfield, ballot boxes also opened at 12.01am, with all votes coming in just after Dixville Notch. President Donald Trump won that contest, with 16 votes to Biden’s five.
Joe Biden secured the first victory of Election Day 2020 by winning all five votes in the tiny New Hampshire town of Dixville Notch
President Trump took home the second Election Day victory in Millsville, New Hampshire
Joe Biden secured the first victory of Election Day 2020 by winning all five votes in the tiny New Hampshire town of Dixville Notch. President Trump took home the second victory in neighboring Millsville minutes later
Normally, there would be a big food spread and plenty of media crammed into a small space to watch the voting in Dixville Notch, town moderator Tom Tillotson said last week.
But that’s no longer possible because of the coronavirus pandemic. It’s also hard to observe the 60th anniversary of the tradition, which started in November 1960.
‘Sixty years – and unfortunately, we can’t celebrate it,’ he said.
A third community with midnight voting, Hart’s Location, suspended the tradition this election because of coronavirus concerns. It decided to hold voting from 11am to 7pm Tuesday.
The White Mountains town started the early voting in 1948 to accommodate railroad workers who had to be at work before normal voting hours. It eventually stopped in 1964 and brought it back in 1996.
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