More than 464,000 expatriate voters have completed their postal voting through the Postal Vote BD mobile app ahead of Bangladesh’s upcoming referendum and 13th National Parliamentary Election. The information was confirmed on Monday by Salim Ahmad Khan, team leader of the OCV-SDI project on expatriate voter registration. As of 11 a.m., 766,862 ballots had been sent to expatriates, of which 522,315 were received, and 418,962 ballots were submitted to local post offices or mailboxes abroad. BD Post has forwarded 1,859 ballots to returning officers.

The Election Commission has also started sending postal ballots to domestic voters under the ICPV system. Across the country, 646,507 registered voters have received ballots, with 58,797 having accepted them by 11 a.m. Among them, 43,319 have completed voting, and 29,334 have submitted their ballots to post offices or mailboxes.

According to Salim Ahmad Khan, a total of 1,533,684 voters, both domestic and expatriate, have registered through the Postal Vote BD app to participate in the upcoming national election and referendum.