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Thursday may be Independence Day for Scotland as Scots will determine whether it leaves the United Kingdom to become an independent state, and one Jamaica Plain restaurant is cashing in on the historic vote.Watch the report | Images: Celebrities react to Scotland vote At The Haven, the vote is all the talk.More than 500 ballots have been cast at the pub, and though they won't officially count in Scotland, they still matter."They're not ready," Alan MacGregor said. "I don't like the British, but you have to be practical."But many young voters think it's high time to make the break."Scotland is, by nature, a liberal country, and we have been dragged to the right by London for the past three or four decades," Andy Sweeney, of Clydebank, Scotland, said.A full 97 percent of those eligible have registered to vote -- including, for the first time, 16- and 17-year-olds -- in a referendum that polls suggest is too close to call.A phone poll of 1,373 people by Ipsos MORI, released Wednesday, put opposition to independence at 51 percent and support at 49 percent, with 5 percent of voters undecided.That means neither side can feel confident, given the margin of error of about plus or minus three percentage points.Former Prime Minister Gordon Brown, himself a Scot, told a No campaign rally that the quiet majority of pro-Union Scots "will be silent no more," while pro-independence leader Alex Salmond urged voters to seize a democratic opportunity 307 years in the making."I hope people will think very carefully about the future," Queen Elizabeth II said.If Scotland leaves Great Britain, the alliance with the United States would be damaged, and even the Union Jack flag may have to change with the blue field representing Scotland removed."I think it's going to be so close," The Haven owner Jason Waddleton said. "It's an amazing time in history in Scotland."Waddleton said friends and family in Scotland will be glued to their televisions watching returns come in and will even broadcast the result live at the restaurant to a packed house.The results of the restaurant's vote will be announced at 6 p.m. Thursday.