The Election Commission (EC) has dispatched postal ballots to 728,023 expatriate voters living in 104 countries to enable them to cast their votes in the upcoming 13th Jatiya Sangsad election and referendum.
Salim Ahmad Khan, team leader of the Out of Country Voting System and Implementation (OCV-SDI) project on expatriate voter registration told BSS that the postal ballots would also be dispatched to the remaining registered expatriate voters at the earliest possible time.
However, maintaining the secrecy of the ballot is the responsibility of the concerned voter, he said, warning that if anyone violates ballot the secrecy, their National Identity Card (NID) may be blocked.
EC officials said the highest number of ballots was dispatched to expatriates in Saudi Arabia, where 223,943 voters received ballots.
Besides, 83,827 ballots were delivered to voters in Malaysia and 74,000 to those in Qatar.
According to EC data, a total of 15,33,683 voters have registered through the “Postal Vote BD” App to cast their votes by postal ballot in this election.
Of them, 761,141 voters registered from inside the country, while 772,542 registered from abroad.
EC sources further said that on Wednesday evening, postal ballots were dispatched to 50,790 expatriate voters in different countries.
Among them, 17,000 were dispatched to Saudi Arabia, followed by 11,750 to Malaysia and 10,200 to Oman.
