Expatriate voters registered through the “Postal Vote BD” app will be able to cast their ballots for the upcoming 13th Jatiya Sangsad (JS) election and referendum from 5pm on Wednesday.
The Election Commission (EC) has instructed the voters to follow the prescribed procedure available on its website or app to select their candidate and symbol in the respective constituency.
According to the EC schedule, expatriates must send their completed postal ballots to the office of the Returning Officer of their constituency in Bangladesh by 25 January.
In a message issued on Wednesday, the EC informed registered expatriate voters that they may exercise their franchise from 21 January by following the designated process on the mobile app. Voters are required to deposit the yellow envelope containing their ballot at the nearest post office or mailbox by 25 January.
Another EC message assured that the “Postal Vote BD” app has adequate security measures in place, ensuring that no voter’s ballot can be cast by another person and the secrecy of the vote remains protected.
Salim Ahmad Khan, team leader of the “OCV-SDI” project on expatriate voter registration, said that the EC has completed the distribution of postal ballots to 767,028 expatriate voters across 121 countries.
According to EC data, a total of 15,33,683 voters from home and abroad have registered through the “Postal Vote BD” app to participate in the 13th JS election and referendum.
