Inside Burma's First Free Nationwide Election in 25 years

  • A voter holds his citizen ID card while lining up to cast his ballot at a polling station in Yangon, Burma on Nov. 8, 2015.
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  • People stand outside a polling station in Mandalay, Burma on Nov. 8, 2015.
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  • Voters check the list at a polling station in the Chinatown during Myanmar's first free and fair election in Yangon on Nov. 8, 2015.
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  • The media prepares as Aung San Suu Kyi, leader of Burma's National League for Democracy party, arrives at a polling station in Yangon, on Nov. 8, 2015.
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  • Aung San Suu Kyivisits a polling station in Kawhmu township, Yangon on Nov. 8, 2015.
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  • Votes are counted in an unfinished building being used as a polling station in Yangon on Nov. 8, 2015.
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  • People take part of the rally outside the National League for Democracy office after Burma's first free and fair election, in Yangon on Nov. 8, 2015.
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