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Dixville Notch, NH has returned the first results in the 2024 US election. The town voted at midnight and only six ballots were cast, so tallying the results didn't take long. In the presidential race the results were evenly split, with 3 votes each for Kamala Harris and Donald Trump.

https://www.wmur.com/article/midnight-voting-new-hampshire-election-results-24/62810457

~~And now we get the first spot of color on the map, courtesy of Associated Press:~~
Edit: AP has now removed the blue squares in New Hampshire from their map.

https://apnews.com/projects/election-results-2024/

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[–] imouto 92 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

In the event of an exact tie, the seat is awarded to the male candidate, and the female candidate is put in jail. /j

[–] NateNate60 38 points 2 weeks ago

In the event of a tie, the winner will be determined by whomever can bake the best spinach quiche in 2 hours or less.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 weeks ago

In the event of a tight race, the Supreme Court can decide to speed up the process by not counting black votes.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

In the event of a tie the candidates will compete in a no disqualification escape the cage match. To air at 9pm est Saturday November 30th only on pay per view.

[–] JusticeForPorygon 65 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

This is gonna be a long week.

(Famous last words)

[–] [email protected] 57 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue.

[–] JusticeForPorygon 9 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Agreed. Part of me wants to skip classes for the week and just black out for a few days, at least until Pennsylvania's called.

[–] Lost_My_Mind 2 points 2 weeks ago

Jack Danials is about to have a hell of a bonus week!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago

I picked the wrong week to stop shooting heroin.

[–] Hope 8 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I tried edibles on Saturday for the first time, as a test run for ~~tomorrow~~ the rest of the week.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

"Man, what a long week, huh?"

"Lemon, it's Tuesday."

[–] Lost_My_Mind 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

"Yeah, well.....you shot a guy."

"What? No. That wasn't this show. You're breaking the 4th wall, Liz."

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

(alec baldwin's character did actually shoot a guy at the end of season 5 episode 21 but that was a full season and a half later)

[–] too_high_for_this 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

(alec baldwin~~s character~~ did actually shoot a guy ~~at the end of season 5 episode 21 but that was a full season and a half later~~)

[–] AbouBenAdhem 47 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Has Trump declared victory yet?

[–] rustyfish 26 points 2 weeks ago

He’s probably fighting a bad case of reflux and diarrhoea because he is even with a woman of colour.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 2 weeks ago

Do you think they made it a tie on purpose? They knew they had the chance to troll the entire country and took it, lol.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Funny, over here results can only start coming in when all polling stations are closed so as not to influence the vote of people further west...

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 weeks ago

That's standard practice everywhere else in the US. New Hampshire has this thing about being first, though. They have the earliest presidential primary as well. Releasing early results for this one tiny town is a minor publicity gimmick that shouldn't have any impact on the overall election. Even the rest of New Hampshire's towns will wait until Tuesday evening to report their results.

[–] troglodytis 28 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

In the Governor's race they voted 5 Rep 1 Dem.

In the primary the 6 votes were 4 registered Republicans and 2 independents.

I'd say it's not data, but a nice start for Harris

[–] evidences 19 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I think it's interesting to note that in the 2020 presidential election there was only 5 voters and all 5 voted for Joe Biden.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago

All 6 voted for Haley in the primary.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 weeks ago

Great, it's so close they'll have to do a few recounts...

[–] pyre 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

wait how many people live there? my household has two votes. what kind of town gets only six?

[–] SpraynardKruger 19 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The kind that sits way, way, waaaayyyy up north by the Canadian border.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dixville_Notch,_New_Hampshire

[–] pyre 3 points 2 weeks ago
[–] Atlas_ 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Wouldn't want to live in that town

[–] Atlas_ 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Because it's tiny not because of the voting.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Imagine the single bar in that town, the night after 3 people voted Democrat and 3 voted Republican.

[–] Randelung 1 points 2 weeks ago

I see a blank map.

[–] Anticorp 1 points 2 weeks ago

What the heezy, my neezy?