The seven voters in the village of Dixville Notch, in the northeastern United States, cast their ballots on Monday night, symbolically launching the US presidential election.
At 00:00 (05:00 GMT), Clay Smith placed the first ballot in the box in the village located in the Appalachian Mountains, followed by four other male and female voters in the village located in the state of New Hampshire near the Canadian border, in a tradition followed since 1960. And led to granting this town the status of «the first in the country».
Two other villages in this state also vote at night, but voting officially begins at six o'clock on the east coast (11:00 GMT).
It is noteworthy that about 225 million voters were invited to choose one of the candidates, Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump, as president to succeed Barack Obama.
AFP (New Hampshire-America)