BUENOS AIRES, (PNA/Xinhua) — Following is the voting procedure for Saturday’s election in Buenos Aires of the host city for the 2020 summer Olympic Games by International Olympic Committee (IOC) members:
Candidates: Istanbul, Madrid and Tokyo.
Voting IOC members (IOC president Jacques Rogge and honorary ones do not vote): 103
1st round potential voters — 97 as members from bid city countries ineligible, thus three from Spain and one each from Japan and Turkey cannot vote
Should one city gain the majority of votes then the contest is over. However, if no city has majority then the one with the lowest number of votes is eliminated and the IOC member/members can then vote in second and final round.
2nd round — the one with largest amount of votes wins.