By Alan Cowell,
18 September 2014
A young voter leaves a polling station in Edinburgh on Thursday. Analysts have forecast a record turnout in excess of 80 percent at about 2,600 polling places. Credit Leon Neal/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
<p id="story-continues-1" class="story-body-text story-content">After a passionate campaign that spanned two years of mounting intensity but reached back into centuries of history, Scottish voters headed for the polling booths on Thursday to choose whether to remain part of the United Kingdom or to secede and become an independent nation.</p><p class="story-body-text story-content">If the “yes” campaign seeking independence for Scotland secures a majority, the outcome will herald the most dramatic constitutional change in the relationship between the two countries since they united in 1707. The repercussions would be enormous, creating the world’s newest state and ending a union that once oversaw an empire and triumphed in two world wars.</p><div>[toc hidden:1]</div>
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