Millions of voters begin streaming to the polls across Myanmar in the first relatively free election in a quarter of a century. As many as 30 million people are expected to cast ballots Sunday to select from more than 6,000 candidates for both houses of the national parliament and regional assemblies.
Myanmar Holds Historic Election
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Women search for names on a voter's registration list at a polling station in the village of Dala, Nov. 8, 2015.
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Volunteers prepare ballots for voters at a polling station in Dala, a village outside of Yangon, Nov. 8, 2015.
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One of the 40,000 ordinary citizens drafted as "special police" to help provide security at polling stations on election day in Yangon, Nov. 8, 2015.
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A worker at a polling station inspects a clean ballot, Yangon, Nov. 8, 2015.