The town of Dixville Notch votes at midnight on the day of the New Hampshire primary. But after a state investigation found that many of its voters weren't eligible, it nearly lost its polling place.

Because the population in Dixville Notch is so small, the town is able to quickly tally and announce its results.On November 8, 1960, nine voters gathered in the Ballot Room at the Balsams hotel.

Nikki Haley took all six votes in Dixville Notch, but it could be a different story in the rest of the state, as Donald J. Trump has a comfortable lead in the polls.

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For 60 years, the residents of Dixville Notch have been casting their ballots for New Hampshire presidential primaries at midnight, to be the first to vote, but that almost didn't happen this year.

For instance, in 2008, Senator Barack Obama became the first Democrat to win Dixville Notch’s vote since 1968. He received 15 votes to six for his Republican opponent, Senator John McCain.

Dixville Notch is actually better at predicting the party’s nominee (71 percent success rate) than it is at predicting who will win the state’s primary (53 percent success rate).

In Dixville Notch, where a handful of masked residents voted shortly after midnight on Tuesday, all five votes for president went to Joseph R. Biden Jr., the Democratic nominee.