The General Election Commission held a press conference on Monday June 17th to give an announcement regarding the absentee voters for the Presidential Election.

The statement that the 2013 Presidential Election for overseas absentee voters was organized at 39 diplomatic representative offices between June 14th and 16th according to presidential election law was made by the Chairman of the General Election Commission, Ch.Sodnomtseren, the State Secretary of Ministry of Foreign Affairs, G,Tsogtsaikhan the head of organizing committee of overseas voters and the Chairman of the State General Registration Office, Ts.Purevdorj.

Out of 6,478 Mongolian nationals residing abroad 4,248 absentee voters who had registered to vote cast their votes for the Presidential Election of Mongolia.

Officials say that the voters` attendance was 50 percent more than the previous year’s Parliamentary Election of Mongolia.

According to a statement by the Chairman of the General Election Commission the voters` attendance reached 68.2 percent.

Due the time zone difference, the voting finished at 13.00 pm local time of Ulaanbaatar on June 17th  in San Francisco.

The preparation work for the 2013 Presidential Election of Mongolia that is scheduled on June 26th has been completed.

According to a summary issued on June 16th a total of 1,856,190 voters were registered to vote for the Presidential Election.

How many votes will actually be cast through the polling stations has not yet been estimated.

According to Presidential Election law the voting through carrying box will be arranged on June 25th.

For the upcoming Presidential Election 22  electoral committees, 339 electoral districts in sum and districts and 1,896 sub-electoral districts have been established to carry out the voting.

At these polling stations 15,863 civil servants are working. The Presidential Election will be organized under the automatic system.

Therefore 31 teams of 136 experts responsible for information and technology in electoral and sub-electoral districts and 2,271 information and technology clerks in 1,896 sub-electoral districts and over 2500 authorized assistants will be working.

A total of 20,000 civil servants including police and members of the intelligence agency are expected to be called for duty during the Presidential Election of Mongolia.