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【Photo Diary】 Visit to Myanmar - 2 [2020/11/23]
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I would like to share with you some of the photographs taken during my visit to Myanmar from October 29 to November 11, 2020, to head the Japanese government’s special delegation to observe the Southeast Asian country’s general election on November 8. [November 8, Yangon]  As the sun came up, long lines of voters wearing masks and face shields and observing social distancing guidelines amid the novel coronavirus pandemic formed at a polling station in Yangon.  A voter casting her ballot.  This woman shows her little finger stained with indelible ink that the Japanese government supplied as it did in the previous poll in 2015 to ensure a free and fair election by preventing double-voting fraud.  Talking with a local voter wearing a face shield amid the COVID-19 pandemic.  I try out the election stamp.  Ballots that have been cast.  This balloting station in Yangon closed at 4 p.m. sharp.  Ballots are properly stored ahead of counting.  Observing ballot counting in a Yangon polling station. (To be continued) |