The Election Commission is set to launch a mobile app ‘Postal Vote BD’ on Tuesday (November 18) for a particular section of voters including expatriates to register to vote through the postal balloting in the 13th parliamentary election.
The ‘Postal Vote BD’ mobile app will be opened at Nirbachan Bhaban auditorium in the capital at 6:00pm on Tuesday, said EC Assistant Director (PR) Ashadul Haque on Monday.
The expatriate Bangladeshis, the persons on election duty, the government staff who are in service outside their election area, and those who are behind the bar are being allowed to register in the mobile app to vote through the postal balloting in the next general election to be held in early February 2026.
Chief Election Commissioner AMM Nasir Uddin will open the mobile app, said the EC official.
According to the EC officials, 7-8 percent of the country’s voters are staying abroad.
About the postal balloting, the CEC in Monday's electoral dialogue said although postal ballots for expatriates have always existed in the law, no Election Commission in the past worked with this complex issue.
“Postal balloting has always been in the law, but it was never practised. We have taken up this work,” he said.
The Election Commission is going to introduce the IT-supported postal balloting system to ensure that expatriates can vote in the election.