Aung San Suu Kyi Votes in Myanmar Elections

Opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi has cast her ballot in Myanmar's elections. 

Suu Kyi voted Sunday in a polling station near her home in Yangon, NBC News reported.

She is running for a seat she has held in the lower house of Parliament, which she's expected to win easily. Her opposition party, the National League for Democracy, is also expected to win in a race against the ruling Union Solidarity Development Party, made up largely of former junta members.

Suu Kyi's party won just over 80 percent of parliamentary seats in the 1990 general election, even though she and her top deputy were under house arrest.

A shocked army refused to seat the winning lawmakers, with the excuse that a new constitution first had to be implemented — a task that ended up taking 18 years to accomplish.

Suu Kyi was again under house arrest for the next general election in 2010, which the NLD boycotted because it considered election laws unfair.

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