The Election Commission (EC) will train 142 officials and employees on managing postal voting for the upcoming referendum and the 13th parliamentary election. The training will be held on Saturday, according to a letter signed by Riaz Uddin, Assistant Director of the Electoral Training Institute. Participants will include additional deputy commissioners, additional district magistrates, senior assistant commissioners, executive magistrates, district information officers, and other officials of similar rank.

The training will cover every stage of postal vote management, including verifying envelopes received through the postal service, scanning QR codes with designated software for data storage, automatically preparing Form-12, and securely transferring materials to presiding officers. EC officials said the initiative aims to ensure transparency, accuracy, and timeliness in handling postal votes.

Registered postal voters have already received their ballot papers and will cast their votes between January 21 and 25. The counting of postal ballots will take place on election day, February 12.