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Yangon factory workers walk to work on May 16. The industrial workforce of the city largely consists of migrants from poor rural areas, many of whom are vulnerable to disenfranchisement because they are registered to vote elsewhere. (Kyaw Lin Htoon | Frontier)

Internal migrants risk mass disenfranchisement

Hundreds of thousands of eligible voters could lose their right to cast a ballot in November thanks to a vote transfer system that shifts the burden from electoral authorities to voters.

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