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https://www.nhpr.org/post/amid-election-scrutiny-dixville-notch-s-midnight-voting-tradition-could-be-risk
empedocles
(15,751 posts)mwooldri
(10,303 posts)Article says "If Dixville Notch cant get its act together, the state says it wont be allowed to hold its midnight vote in the 2020 presidential primary."
Dixville Notch held its primary... At midnight. Like usual.
Kaleva
(36,343 posts)"If Dixville Notch cant get its act together, the state says it wont be allowed to hold its midnight vote in the 2020 presidential primary."
https://www.nhpr.org/post/amid-election-scrutiny-dixville-notch-s-midnight-voting-tradition-could-be-risk#stream/0
angrychair
(8,733 posts)It was actually mentioned on a couple of different reports.
That the midnight primary still happened has a lot more to do with NH wanting to maintain their "first in the nation" status than anything else. It has a lot more to do with politics than anything else.
csziggy
(34,137 posts)Just enough to hold the required official positions.
Dixville Notch Finds Enough People To Continue Midnight New Hampshire Primary Voting
By KATHY McCORMACK Associated Press
January 10, 2020 at 8:28 am
Filed Under: Dixville Notch, New Hampshire Primary
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) A tiny New Hampshire community whose tradition of being among the first to cast ballots for president in primaries and the general election was endangered now has enough people to go ahead, the town moderator said Thursday.
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But last year, the attorney generals office said the community was missing an official who is needed to hold an election come the Feb. 11 primary. The person who held that position had moved away.
That left Dixville Notch with just four residents Tillotson, his wife, his son and another person. If the community couldnt find a fifth person in time to fill a selectman vacancy, it would have needed to contact the secretary of states office for assistance in joining nearby municipalities in order to vote.
Resident No. 5 is Les Otten, developer of the Balsams resort, where the voting tradition began. Otten said he plans to move to Dixville Notch from Greenwood, Maine, ahead of the primary. He already owns several properties in the New Hampshire community and is working on a $186 million redevelopment project in the area.
https://boston.cbslocal.com/2020/01/10/dixville-notch-new-hampshire-2020-presidential-primary-first-voting-ballots/
So all this attention is paid to just a handful of people -
flotsam
(3,268 posts)The residents work for a resort hotel. There is no actual town, just employees. It does not make their votes irrelevant but they should not be confused with an actual town or city.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)And that's sayin' somethin'!