EC receives postal ballots from 140,000 expats

Nearly 140,000 postal ballots cast by expatriate Bangladeshis have reached the country ahead of the 13th parliamentary polls scheduled for February 12, reports bdnews24.com.
Salim Ahmad Khan, team leader of the Election Commission's (EC) OCV-SDI project, said by 3:30pm on Friday, they had received 139,763 postal ballots.
The postal ballot app shows 454,587 expatriates have already cast their votes. Among them, 406,564 have submitted their ballots to post offices or designated mailboxes of their respective countries after casting their votes.A referendum on implementing the July Charter will also be held simultaneously with the JS polls on February 12.