ELECTION COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN NOMINATED FOR INTERNATIONAL AWARD

Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ The Chairman of Mongolia's General Election Committee /GEC/ Ch.Sodnomtseren has been announced as one of finalists for an International electoral award. He was nominated for the Electoral Ergonomy Award of The International Center for Parliamentary Studies (ICPS) along with Michael Ertel, a Supervisor of Elections at Seminole County Florida, USA. Electoral Ergonomy Award, one of eleven awards granted by ICPS, recognizes outstanding initiatives taken by an Election Management Body to tailor some electoral procedures to the psychology of their voter and the specific characteristics of their electorate (cultural habits, demographic and geographical make-up of the population, social or literacy characteristics, etc). Initiatives nominated for this award may pertain to any aspect of electoral ergonomy, such as the design of the polling ballots or adaptation of voting machines, the organization of the polling station or the polling booth, research on alternative voting mechanisms such as advanced, postal, or electronic voting. The key criteria pertain to the taking into account of the needs and specific features of citizens in the decisions made by Electoral Management Bodies, be it in the design, evaluation, justification, and/or experimentation of voting procedures according to voters' needs, psychology and culture. The winners will be announced at the Award Ceremony taking place in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on December 4 of 2013.