Myanmar Holds Historic Election

Supporters of Myanmar's National League for Democracy party cheer as they watch early voting results outside the NLD headquarters in Yangon, Myanmar, Nov. 8, 2015.

Myanmar election commission officer shows a ballot to count votes at a polling station during the country’s general election in Yangon, Nov. 8, 2015.

Muslims stand in a line to cast their vote outside of a polling station in Mandalay, Nov. 8, 2015.

Myanmar's President Thein Sein casts his vote in Naypyitaw, Nov. 8, 2015.

Sein Kyi, 87, and his family members display their inked fingers after voting in Yangon, Nov. 8, 2015.

Myanmar's National League for Democracy (NLD) party leader Aung San Suu Kyi arrives to cast her ballot during the general election in Yangon, Nov. 8, 2015.

Election observers from the European Union at a polling station in Yangon, Nov. 8, 2015.

A woman casts her ballot at a polling station during the general elections in Yangon, Nov. 8, 2015.

Women search for names on a voter's registration list at a polling station in the village of Dala, Nov. 8, 2015.

Volunteers prepare ballots for voters at a polling station in Dala, a village outside of Yangon, Nov. 8, 2015.

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.

A worker at a polling station inspects a clean ballot, Yangon, Nov. 8, 2015.

An elderly voter is assisted in reaching his polling station in Yangon, Nov. 8, 2015.

People stand outside a polling station in Mandalay, Nov. 8, 2015.