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Overseas Presidential Voting Draws Highest Turnout

News2017-05-02
Overseas Presidential Voting Draws Highest Turnout

A record number of South Koreans have cast overseas ballots to elect the next South Korean president.
 
The National Election Commission(NEC) said on Monday that a total of 221-thousand-981 South Koreans living abroad, or 75-point-three percent of those registered for overseas voting, headed to the polls in the six-day overseas election period that ended on Sunday.
 
It is the highest turnout for overseas presidential voting, jumping by 40-point-three percent from the previous election in 2012. 

Most of the votes were cast in the U.S. at 48-thousand-487, followed by China at 35-thousand-352 and Japan at 21-thousand-384.
 
A 101-year-old Korean woman living in Russia was the oldest to cast a ballot in the latest presidential overseas balloting She traveled for four hours to the the South Korean consulate in Vladivostok. 

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