By the time the presidential balloting began, there were only 64 delegates present.
The vote analysis service at the center of the confusion over the 2000 presidential balloting officially went out of business yesterday.
The winner of the primary will compete against two opposition party candidates in presidential balloting on July 2.
Nevertheless, the Christian Democrats confidently looked toward the 1972 presidential balloting.
The actual vote count in the presidential balloting of February 20, 1972, probably will never be known.
The agreement on Monday said that presidential balloting would be "desirable" before the end of this year.
The votes are seen as dry runs for presidential balloting next year.
That is the right decision, and it should end speculation that he might cancel presidential balloting later this month.
Last fall, the agency requested $240 million to finance operations this year, when it must prepare the national voter list for next year's presidential balloting.
In 1994, aggressive government recruiting brought some 1,000 foreigners to Mexico to scrutinize the presidential balloting.