YANGON: Myanmar plans to extend the advance voting deadline for overseas voters in the November polls following a raft of complaints and mistakes, including ballots marked for Japan being sent to Egypt, state media said Wednesday.

Only a fraction of the country’s millions-strong diaspora are eligible to take part in the advance ballot, and the chaos will do little to quell concerns over the country’s ability to hold nationwide polls on November 8.

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