03 JULY 2011 - SAMUT PRAKAN, THAILAND: The first voter drops his ballot into the ballot box in Samut Prakan, Thailand, Sunday, July 3. He later told a reporter from Thai television that he voted for Pheu Thai. More than 47,000,000 Thais were registered to vote in Sunday's election, which had turned into a referendum on the current government, led, by the Thai Democrats and the oppositionPheu Thai party. Pheu Thai is the latest political incarnation of ousted Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra. PT is led by his youngest sister, Yingluck Shinawatra, who is the party's candidate for Prime Minister. Exit polling by three Thai polling firms showed Pheu Thai winning a landslide election. PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ