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The Latest: Enthusiasm, hope for change run high in Myanmar

A woman casts her ballot at a polling station during the general elections Sunday, Nov. 8, 2015, in Yangon, Myanmar. Myanmar voted Sunday in historic elections that will test whether popular mandate can loosen the military's longstanding grip on power, even if opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi's party secures a widely-expected victory. (AP Photo/Khin Maung Win)
A woman casts her ballot at a polling station during the general elections Sunday, Nov. 8, 2015, in Yangon, Myanmar. Myanmar voted Sunday in historic elections that will test whether popular mandate can loosen the military's longstanding grip on power, even if opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi's party secures a widely-expected victory. (AP Photo/Khin Maung Win) A woman casts her ballot at a polling station during the general elections Sunday, Nov. 8, 2015, in Yangon, Myanmar. Myanmar voted Sunday in historic elections that will test whether popular mandate can loosen the military's longstanding grip on power, even if opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi's party secures a widely-expected victory. (AP Photo/Khin Maung Win)

By Associated Press 2 min read

YANGON, Myanmar (AP) – The latest on landmark elections in Myanmar. All times local.

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7 a.m.

Hundreds of voters have lined up in a cramped school corridor where opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi will cast her ballot later Sunday.

Holding their ID cars, the old, young, middle-aged and teenagers waited eagerly for their chance to vote in a snaking queue in the two-story school with green walls.