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00:00Three for Kamala Harris, three for Donald Trump.
00:04Just like opinion poll after opinion poll in the run-up to election day,
00:08the results in Dixville-Notch showed a dead heat between the two presidential candidates.
00:14The New Hampshire Hamlets registered voters gathered at midnight
00:17to cast the first ballots in this year's race, as they have every year since 1960.
00:23It's just a wonderful tradition, but it's also, I think, democracy in its purest sense.
00:30All six votes were tallied and a tie was announced shortly afterwards.
00:35In the last two presidential elections, Dixville voters supported the Democratic nominee.
00:40However we vote isn't going to sway the election, that's for sure.
00:44But if we can encourage people to vote, if they can say,
00:48hey these guys got up at midnight to vote, 100% of the town got up at midnight and went to vote.
00:54New Hampshire allows municipalities with fewer than 100 residents to open their
00:59polling stations at midnight. But most people on the east coast began voting
01:03six or seven hours later on Tuesday, with long lines forming early.
01:08Polls showed no decisive lead for either Trump or Harris right up until voting day,
01:13in the bitterly fought, tightly contested presidential race.
01:16You know this is very crucial, you know what I'm saying, I made sure I was up at 5.30.
01:21More than 82 million people have already taken advantage of early voting to cast their ballots,
01:26out of more than 160 million registered voters.