UPDATE: 12:05 a.m. EST - The 10 registered voters from Dixville Notch voted and the results were a tie, five for President Barack Obama and five for former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney. It is the first tie in Dixville Notch presidential voting history.
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Four Electoral College votes could make the difference in the 2012 presidential election.
For New Hampshire, voting for the president of the United States starts at midnight in towns such as Dixville Notch.
Rasmussen Reports reported its latest tracking numbers conducted on Nov. 4 with 750 likely voters. According to the Scott Rasmussen-led organization, Obama is leading with two percentage points ahead of former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney.
In the Rasmussen poll, Romney received 48 percent to Obama's 50 percent, with a margin of error of four percent.
The Obama lead continues based on the New England College polls, which surveyed 687 likely voters and a margin of error of 3.7 percent margin of error.
The New England College poll also has Obama at 50 percent, but Romney is down two percent at 46 percent.
Obama won New Hampshire in 2008 with a 9.6 percent margin. Against Arizona Senator John McCain, Obama received 54.1 percent to McCain's 44.5 percent.
The importance of New Hampshire is mixed pending on who you ask, but based on the 2000 presidential election between Al Gore and George W. Bush, there was only a four vote difference from the Electoral College, the same number New Hampshire is offering.
For the small town of Dixville Notch, New Hampshire, approximately 10 registered voters are scheduled to gather at midnight and polls usually close a minute later.
Since the 1960 election with John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon, Dixville Notch has voted for seven of 13 winners.
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