November 5, 2010 1:17 PM

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Voters in military-run Myanmar head to polls on Sunday

Voters in military-run Myanmar head to the polls on Sunday for the first time in two decades. The military junta will maintain a plurality of seats in the parliament while the remainder are contested by candidates from dozens of parties. Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy, which won a landslide victory in 1990 but was not allowed to take power when the military nullified the vote, is boycotting the vote. It was disbanded by the junta earlier this year when its insistence on keeping Suu Kyi on its rolls barred it from registering for the election. There are about 29 million eligible voters and more than 40,000 voting stations in the country. The population is about 58 million.

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