Members of the special services groups line up to vote in St. Mary on February 22.
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Director of Elections Glasspole Brown, speaking with Hotline host Emily Shields, as well as reports from Radio Jamaica's correspondents Henry Shirley and Melville Harris
With just about four hours of voting left for special services groups in the local government election, operations are seemingly running smoothly with a few minor hiccups.
The election day workers and members of the security forces are voting ahead of the general public next Monday, February 26.
Some 40,514 people or two per cent of the official voters list are expected to vote Thursday.
Polling stations opened from 8 a.m. and will close at 4 p.m.
Director of Elections Glasspole Brown, who spoke on Radio Jamaica's Hotline on Thursday morning, said there were a few "minor logistic issues" but these were being sorted and were not hampering the poll.
At the time, he said it was too early to give an indication of the voter turnout.
Sometime after 10 a.m. Thursday, scores of Jamaica Defence Force soldiers and police officers could be seen making their way to the polling station across from Duke Street to cast their ballot.
That is one of the polling stations for the Rae Town Electoral Division in Central Kingston.
Rae Town is one of the hot seats in the Corporate Area, where the incumbent Jamaica Labour Party's Rosalie Hamilton goes up against the People's National Party's Shaun McGregor.
Ms. Hamilton won by just one vote against Mr. McGregor in the 2016 election.
It was, however, a snail's pace for voting at the St. Margaret's Church Hall polling station for the Mona and Papine divisions in Eastern St. Andrew.
Papine is also one of the divisions to watch, as the incumbent Venesha Phillips will be running on a JLP ticket in this election after switching allegiance from the PNP.
St. Thomas
In St. Thomas, there are reports of low voter turnout for the morning session.
Radio Jamaica's correspondent Henry Shirley visited some of the polling stations and reported a five per cent voter turnout across areas in Eastern St. Thomas.
"Over in Western St. Thomas, though, that number has improved a little bit, where at 11 o'clock it stood at 15 per cent. We went to the Yallahs Baptist Church where two polling divisions, Llandewey and Yallahs converge for voting, and it's extremely low in that area. But hopefully in the afternoon, this number should improve," he said.
St. Elizabeth
There has been a steady voter turnout in St. Elizabeth of police and Election Day workers across St. Elizabeth.
Correspondent Melville Harris said, while the turnout is steady, some police officers have indicated that they will not be casting a vote.
He said all polling stations opened on time and have been incident free.
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