Just after midnight, the town's six registered voters gathered in the Tillotson Room at the Balsams Resort to cast the nation's first ballots on Election Day, continuing a 60-year tradition of being among the earliest to vote.

The first votes in the 2024 US presidential election have now been counted

In 1845, the US Congress decreed that presidential elections should always be held on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November.

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Polls close at different times across the country

The time polls close in each state in GMT