More than 425,000 expatriates cast votes through postal ballot

A total of 425,788 expatriate voters have already cast their votes through postal ballot in the 13th parliamentary election and referendum, according to election officials.

Salim Ahmad Khan, team leader of the OCV-SDI project on expatriate voter registration, disclosed the figures on Tuesday.

Khan said that by 10:30am on 27 January, ballots had reached destination countries for 766,862 expatriate voters who registered through the “Postal Vote BD” mobile app. Of them, 493,920 voters had received their ballots.

He said 425,788 expatriate voters had completed voting so far. Among them, 370,322 voters submitted their ballots to postal offices or mailboxes in their respective countries, while ballots from another 21,508 expatriate voters had already reached Bangladesh.

Khan added that a total of 1,533,683 voters—both at home and abroad—registered through the “Postal Vote BD” app to vote in the 13th parliamentary election and referendum.