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Live blog update| Iraq Elections 2021

Nasiriyah calm on polling day

Calm reigns in the city centre of Nasiriyah, home to the most violent 2019 anti-government protests in southern Iraq, which led to the overthrow of the government of then-prime minister Adel Abdul-Mahdi and the call for early elections.

By 11am, voter turnout at polling stations is still modest, not exceeding 28 percent in the Dhi Qar governorate in southern Iraq, according to observers.

No major technical problems have been reported so far, except for issues with some individual voting machines that were fixed.