In this March 31, 2012, file photo, an election worker cleans a classroom, to be used as a polling station, a day before the parliamentary by-elections in Yangon, Myanmar. Campaigning kicked off Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2015, for Myanmar’s Nov. 8 general election, which is expected to be the Southeast Asian country’s most credible vote in more than a half-century. Still, the military retain a powerful role despite having made way for a civilian government in 2010, and political and economic reforms have been stymied by persisting ethnic strife and natural disasters. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri, File)