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Dixville Notch may not have actual residents (Original Post) angrychair Feb 2020 OP
Thorough article empedocles Feb 2020 #1
Article is from last year, so things must have been sorted out. mwooldri Feb 2020 #2
Apparently things got worked out as this is an old article. Feb. 2019 Kaleva Feb 2020 #3
Yes...and no angrychair Feb 2020 #4
Only five people live in Dixville Notch csziggy Feb 2020 #5
Dixville Notch is a joke flotsam Feb 2020 #6
Dixville Notch is the Grovers Corner of Cabot Cove gratuitous Feb 2020 #7
Well said! N/T flotsam Feb 2020 #8

mwooldri

(10,291 posts)
2. Article is from last year, so things must have been sorted out.
Tue Feb 11, 2020, 07:47 AM
Feb 2020

Article says "If Dixville Notch can’t get its act together, the state says it won’t be allowed to hold its midnight vote in the 2020 presidential primary."

Dixville Notch held its primary... At midnight. Like usual.

Kaleva

(36,146 posts)
3. Apparently things got worked out as this is an old article. Feb. 2019
Tue Feb 11, 2020, 08:07 AM
Feb 2020

"If Dixville Notch can’t get its act together, the state says it won’t be allowed to hold its midnight vote in the 2020 presidential primary."

https://www.nhpr.org/post/amid-election-scrutiny-dixville-notch-s-midnight-voting-tradition-could-be-risk#stream/0

angrychair

(8,593 posts)
4. Yes...and no
Tue Feb 11, 2020, 10:15 AM
Feb 2020

It was actually mentioned on a couple of different reports.
That the midnight primary still happened has a lot more to do with NH wanting to maintain their "first in the nation" status than anything else. It has a lot more to do with politics than anything else.

csziggy

(34,120 posts)
5. Only five people live in Dixville Notch
Tue Feb 11, 2020, 12:08 PM
Feb 2020

Just enough to hold the required official positions.


Dixville Notch Finds Enough People To Continue Midnight New Hampshire Primary Voting
By KATHY McCORMACK Associated Press
January 10, 2020 at 8:28 am
Filed Under: Dixville Notch, New Hampshire Primary

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A tiny New Hampshire community whose tradition of being among the first to cast ballots for president in primaries and the general election was endangered now has enough people to go ahead, the town moderator said Thursday.

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But last year, the attorney general’s office said the community was missing an official who is needed to hold an election come the Feb. 11 primary. The person who held that position had moved away.

That left Dixville Notch with just four residents — Tillotson, his wife, his son and another person. If the community couldn’t find a fifth person in time to fill a selectman vacancy, it would have needed to contact the secretary of state’s office for assistance in joining nearby municipalities in order to vote.

Resident No. 5 is Les Otten, developer of the Balsams resort, where the voting tradition began. Otten said he plans to move to Dixville Notch from Greenwood, Maine, ahead of the primary. He already owns several properties in the New Hampshire community and is working on a $186 million redevelopment project in the area.

https://boston.cbslocal.com/2020/01/10/dixville-notch-new-hampshire-2020-presidential-primary-first-voting-ballots/


So all this attention is paid to just a handful of people -

flotsam

(3,268 posts)
6. Dixville Notch is a joke
Tue Feb 11, 2020, 08:03 PM
Feb 2020

The residents work for a resort hotel. There is no actual town, just employees. It does not make their votes irrelevant but they should not be confused with an actual town or city.

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