A total of 379,924 postal ballots sent by expatriate voters registered through the “Postal Vote BD” mobile app have so far reached Bangladesh for the upcoming 13th Jatiya Sangsad (JS) election and referendum.
Salim Ahmad Khan, OCV-SDI project team leader for expatriate voter registration, told BSS today that the ballots were received as part of the ongoing postal voting process for overseas voters.
As of 9:30 am today, a total of 766,862 ballots have been dispatched to expatriates registered through the app. Of these, 526,008 voters have received their ballots, while 480,416 expatriates have already cast their votes.
He added that 444,952 overseas voters have submitted their ballots to post offices or postal authorities in their respective countries. Among them, 107,168 ballots have so far been received by returning officers in Bangladesh.
Meanwhile, the Election Commission (EC) has also begun sending postal ballots to voters residing within the country under the ICPV system. So far, ballots have been sent to 662,191 registered voters inside Bangladesh.
According to the latest EC data, 260,447 domestic voters have received their ballots. Of them, 211,122 voters have cast their votes, and 168,519 ballots have been submitted to post offices or mailboxes. Returning officers have so far received 27,367 ballots from domestic voters.
Salim Ahmad Khan further said that a total of 1,533,684 voters, both at home and abroad, have registered through the app to cast their votes by postal ballot in the 13th JS election and referendum.