As a postscript to this morning's early voting, it appears that Hart's Location may not be the interloper on the midnight balloting tradition that I thought.

Locals claim that Hart's Location started the early voting in 1948, given the number of residents who worked for the railroads who couldn't vote during usual polling times. They stopped doing it in the '60s because they were tired of the publicity (which seems like an unusual reason in these media-saturated times), but brought it back in 1996.

Not that it really matters, I suppose. It's just one of those things I find more interesting than it probably is.