New Hampshire hamlet gets Election Day rolling

The US presidential election got underway - on a small scale - with the seven voters of a tiny New Hampshire village who cast the nation's first ballots at the stroke of midnight.

Dixville Notch has had the honor of launching the voting, symbolically, since 1960.

Clay Smith was the first of the seven residents, including five men and two women, to vote as Tuesday's long awaited election day began. An eighth person voted by absentee ballot.