A total of 481,185 postal ballots sent by expatriate voters registered through the 'Postal Vote BD' app have arrived in Bangladesh for the 13th National Parliament Election and referendum. The information was confirmed on Wednesday by Salim Ahmad Khan, team leader of the OCV-SDI project, which oversees expatriate voter registration.

According to Khan, as of 9:15 a.m. Wednesday, 766,862 ballots had been sent to expatriate voters through the app. Among them, 528,579 voters received their ballots, and 515,619 have already cast their votes. Additionally, 507,327 expatriate voters submitted their ballots to postal authorities in their respective countries, and returning officers have so far received 444,436 of those ballots.

The Election Commission has also begun sending postal ballots to domestic voters registered under the ICPV system. So far, 760,898 registered voters within the country have been sent their ballots.