The Election Commission (EC) will verify whether the voter list of those registered through the ‘Postal Vote BD’ app matches the constituency-based voter lists ahead of the 13th parliamentary election and referendum. To ensure accuracy, the EC will send soft copies of both the registered and main voter lists to returning officers, who will issue certification after verification. The directive was confirmed in a letter signed by EC Senior Assistant Secretary Nasir Uddin Chowdhury.

According to the circular, expatriate Bangladeshis, government officials, polling officers on duty, and imprisoned voters will cast their votes through postal ballots. More than 1.53 million citizens have already registered on the EC’s app to vote under this system. District and upazila election officers will certify the watermark-marked and photo-printed voter lists for ICV and OCV voters to ensure they are error-free. Two printed copies of these lists will be produced, one for the returning officer’s office and another for election officials’ records.

As per the election schedule, appeals regarding candidate nominations will continue until January 18, withdrawals until January 20, symbol allocation on January 21, campaigning from January 22 to February 10, and voting on February 12.