Thin Lei Win reflects on her feelings of civic duty pride after voting for the very first time, after living abroad during the flawed 2010 election.

Thin Lei Win reflects on her feelings of civic duty pride after voting for the very first time, after living abroad during the flawed 2010 election.
Thin Lei Win was too young to vote in the 1990 election, and lived abroad during the 2010 failed ballot. Now back in Burma, she is eager to have her…
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