A total of 422,960 postal ballots from expatriate voters have arrived in Bangladesh ahead of the upcoming 13th National Parliament election and referendum. The information was confirmed on Saturday by Salim Ahmad Khan, team leader of the OCV-SDI project on expatriate voter registration. As of 10:15 a.m., 766,862 ballots had been sent to registered expatriates through the Postal Vote BD app, with 527,033 ballots received and 494,185 votes already cast. Additionally, 468,091 expatriate voters have submitted their ballots to postal services abroad, and returning officers have so far received 225,168 of them.

The Election Commission has also begun sending postal ballots to voters residing within the country under the ICPV system. So far, 694,146 domestic registered voters have been sent ballots, of which 381,007 have received them. Among these, 321,695 have voted, and 276,272 have submitted their ballots to post offices or drop boxes. Returning officers have received 83,942 domestic ballots.

In total, 1,533,684 voters at home and abroad have registered through the Postal Vote BD app to participate in the election and referendum via postal ballots.