Voters in Dixville Notch and Hart’s Location made their traditional midnight trek to the polls to kick off primary voting.
NHPR correspondent Chris Jensen was on hand and files this report.
While most of the state was slumbering, residents of Dixville Notch and Hart’s Location were voting. NHPR correspondent Chris Jensen was at Dixville Notch.
The New Hampshire primary’s children of the night were ready at midnight, ballots in hand.
At Dixville Notch there were 17 voters.
At Hart’s Location there were 29.
In the competition to be first voters speed was of the essence. In Dixville Notch there was a kind of choreographed mass voting as each voter had a booth.
About three minutes after midnight the voting was over but it wasn’t clear which town was first. In any case the state’s primary was officially underway.
Voters at Dixville Notch and Hart’s Location came to the same conclusions:
They favored Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain.
Now it is the turn of the state’s better-rested voters. State officials expect almost 500,000 residents to vote today.
For NHPR news this is Chris Jensen.
