DIXVILLE — Dixville Notch’s first-in-the-nation voting results in the presidential election are expected to be announced to the nation once again next month, just as they have since the Kennedy-Nixon race in 1960.

There is one change this time, however. With demolition work underway at The Balsams, the first stage of a planned $20 million renovation project at the now-closed grand hotel, voting will not take place just off the grand ballroom.

Instead, the 10 voters expected to turn out will cast their ballots about a mile-and-a-half away in the lodge of The Balsams Wilderness Ski Resort.

Voting will take place just after midnight on Nov. 6 using the famous Dixville Notch ballot box.

“We’re bringing the ballot box over. We’ll re-create the ballot room,” said Scott Tranchemontagne, spokesman for the hotel’s owners, Dan Hebert and Dan Dagesse.

Dixville Town Clerk Rick Erwin and town Moderator Tom Tillotson will oversee the process at the lodge on Wilderness Road, which is on the opposite side of Route 26 from the hotel. The ski area is about 10-and-a-half miles east of downtown Colebrook.

In what turned out not to be an accurate forecast of national election results 52 years ago, Republican Vice President Richard M. Nixon defeated Democratic Massachusetts Congressman John F. Kennedy, 9-0, in Dixville Notch voting.

New Hampshire law allows polls to be closed and votes to be counted when all registered voters in a community have cast their ballots. Voting in Dixville Notch traditionally takes less than a minute, and results are broadcast to the nation shortly after midnight on Election Day.

Hebert and Dagesse bought the 145-year-old hotel and its 212 rooms on 7,700 acres last December for $2.3 million. The businessmen with ties to the Colebrook area announced their plans to renovate and reopen the hotel which for years provided employment for some 300 people.

The owners are still seeking financing for the project which Tranchemontagne said Friday is expected to run into the mid-$20 million range. Meanwhile, he said, Hebert and Dagesse decided to use their own money to get the demolition work started.

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