Expats cast 461,604 votes; 157,798 postal ballots reach Bangladesh

Bangla Press Desk:   A total of 157,798 expatriate ballots cast via the “Postal Vote BD” mobile app for the 13th National Parliamentary Election and the Referendum have so far arrived in Bangladesh. Meanwhile, 461,604 overseas voters have already completed their voting.

Salim Ahmad Khan, Team Leader of the ‘OCV-SDI’ project on expatriate voter registration, confirmed on Sunday that, as of 11 am, 766,862 ballots registered through the app had reached expatriate destination countries. Of these, 520,501 voters had received their ballots, and 461,604 had completed voting.

He added that 415,762 ballots had been submitted to post offices or ballot boxes abroad, while 157,798 had so far reached Bangladesh.

Domestically, the Election Commission (EC) has dispatched postal ballots to 580,968 registered voters within the country (ICPV).

According to EC data, by 11 am on Sunday, 24,091 voters had received their ballots via the Postal Vote BD app. Of these, 17,053 had completed voting, while 9,843 had submitted their ballots to post offices or ballot boxes.

Salim Ahmad Khan further stated that, in total, 1,533,684 voters—both expatriate and domestic—registered to vote in the 13th National Parliamentary Election and the Referendum using the mobile app.

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