Millsfield or Dixville?
by Mark Steyn
Campaign 2020
November 3, 2020
I stayed up late last night to report the first-in-the-nation poll results on our special Election Day edition of The Mark Steyn Show. New Hampshire has a law that permits any town with fewer than a hundred voters to hold the vote at midnight as long as every voter votes. So last night two communities availed themselves of that opportunity.
The famous one is Dixville Notch. So it's five-zip vote for Biden was eagerly reported by the national media - as the first total blowout for any candidate since Nixon in 1960. Great start for Biden.
The other town, as I mentioned on the show, is Millsfield. Trump over Biden 16 to 5. Nobody reported that.
These two early-voting communities are, in fact, the story of this weird election.
Dixville Notch is the perfect place for the Biden campaign's first 100 per cent victory. It's a Potemkin town for a Potemkin campaign. It's not a town; it's a business masquerading as a town. The business is the Balsams, a nineteenth-century grand hotel. Neil Tillotson, the owner of the joint, started the midnight vote as a gimmick, and it was kind of cute to see him as the very first voter in the nation every four years. But he died, at the age of 102, almost a decade ago - and the hotel has been shuttered since then, pending a so-called "redevelopment" and "reopening".
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