Scenes from Voting Day

First In Line
These residents of Dixville Notch, New Hampshire, are lined up to vote at the stroke of midnight. By local custom, the residents of the small town — population 75 — leave their polling station open for one minute, thereby granting them bragging rights to claim that they are the first in America to have election results. This year, Obama beat McCain by a tally of 15 to 6.

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