> > Why? Yesterday morning, I woke up at 5:30 am and the radio mentioned "... early results from [name of NH town that my sleep-fogged brain didn't catch] which traditionally casts first vote: 38 Gore, 14 Bush, and 1 for Nader."
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> Dixville Notch. It's not a special privilege of that town; it's just a tradition that their polls open at one minute after midnight; they are, consequently, the first to cast their ballots. I don't know where that tally is coming from, though. The report I read was that the early Dixville Notch voters went in favor of Bush, 21 to 5.

Oh. Thanks for giving the name of the town, Sam. I found out from FOXnews that "The Republican chosen by Dixville Notch's voters has gone on to win the party's nomination in every presidential election since 1968." Cool. (I think there's a hamburg in England that has a similar magical predictive ability, when it comes to choosing the Party that goes on the produce the next British Prime Minister.)

Though I still have no idea if that's the name of the NH locale I heard, I think that that tally could have been a combined vote with the other NH hamlet ("Hart's Location"?) which opens on 12:01 a.m. on Election days. I was sleepy at the time when I heard the count, so I could have gotten it all backwards, quite possibly... but anyway, in the February 2000 NH Primary, there were 54 voters (1 abstension) who voted in both Dixville Notch and Hart's Location. If you add up yesterday's 38, 14, and 1 for Nader, you do get a total of 53 votes cast by 6 a.m.

Wolf "assuming I got any of those numbers right anyway :-)" spirit