3 p.m. update
Reached mid-afternoon, Macon County Clerk Josh Tanner confirmed that turnout is still âvery, very low,â with most polling places having less than 100 voters.
âOther than that, everything s running smooth,â Tanner said. âWe haven t had any calls about equipment failures or anything like that. All the judges reported for work, so we re staffed up and ready to go, just waiting on the voters.â
Tanner said they anticipate more voters will come out in the evening before polls close at 7 p.m.
âAs people get off work, especially with the weather being nice, we do anticipate that after five o clock, we ll get some more voters,â Tanner said. âBut it ll still be relatively low.â
BBC News
By David Wilson
image copyrightImage Courtesy of the National Library of Ireland
When the Government of Ireland Act was granted Royal Assent in December 1920, it came at the end of a troubled year in Londonderry.
Six months earlier in the city, a single week of violence had claimed 20 lives.
It was the first upsurge of sectarianism , according to Ulster University historian Dr Adrian Grant.
That week in June, he said, was a hugely significant but largely forgotten time .
image copyrightThe Print Collector/Print Collector/Getty Images
image captionMuch of the violence occurred in the Bishop Street area
The city s electorate had returned a Sinn Féin MP in the 1918 Westminster elections.