Alex Ritson

It's very quiet and peaceful.

The military has got electric voting machines for the first time ever.

So it's quite a very smooth process inside.

People are having to work out how to use those.

But you only have to travel perhaps 30, 40 minutes from landing now

to find villages that are actually controlled by armed rebels.

A very, very tense situation there.

We've been out close to one.

Everyone is armed to the teeth.

There are no elections happening there.

In this first round, there are three rounds of these elections because it's so difficult to hold them because of the civil war.

Only perhaps a quarter of the country will be able to vote once all three rounds are completed.

The general assessment is perhaps half the country will have taken part in the vote.

I expect turnout will be low.

And, you know, inevitably, large numbers of large parts of the Myanmar population are going to quietly reject this election as illegitimate.

Because there is little doubt about the likely outcome, is there?

None at all.

And, you know, think of the irony here.

The military's own party, the USDP, it's been around a long time.

When it had to compete against Aung San Suu Kyi's party, it was pretty much wiped out.