Over 4 lakh expats cast votes through postal ballot

A total of 4,05,164 votes were cast through postal ballots from the Bangladeshi expatriates for the 13th national parliamentary election and the referendum.

Salim Ahmed Khan, team leader of OCV-SDI of expatriate voter registration project, said today (26 January) that till this noon, a total of 6,83,122 ballots were mailed from voters of countries concerned, who registered through the “Postal Vote BD” app. 

Of those, 4,78,326 ballots were collected by the voters and 4,05,164 expatriate voters have cast their votes through the ballots.

A total of 3,44,993 ballots have been submitted in post offices of the respective countries by expatriate voters and 19,388 ballots have already arrived in the country, Salim Ahmed said.

A total of 15,33,683 voters, at home and abroad, have registered to cast their votes through the “Postal Vote BD” app for the upcoming election and the referendum.