Voting has begun in the United States presidential election on Tuesday when the first polling stations opened at midnight local time (6 a.m. CET) in Dixville Notch and Millsfield, New Hampshire. Due to the towns' very small population, 12 and 29, respectively, the votes have already been counted. The town of Hart's Location began voting at the same time.
In Dixville Notch, which has a tradition of midnight voting, Democrat Hillary Clinton won four votes, followed by Republican candidate Donald Trump with two votes and Libertarian Gary Johnson with one. One voter chose to vote for Mitt Romney, GOP candidate in the 2012 election who wasn't on the ballot this year, as the U.S. allows citizens to give their vote to write-in candidates, people who didn't run for office. However, write-in candidates have a very small chance of winning a significant number of votes.
Meanwhile, Trump took Millsfield with 14 votes compared to Clinton's four. The former secretary of state's rival during Democratic primaries, Bernie Sanders, got a write-in vote.
Despite the polls closing and the votes counted in the two New Hampshire towns, the rest of the country will not begin voting for another five-and-a-half hours.
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