Expatriates may correct address in Postal Vote BD app till Dec 9: EC

Staff Reporter :

The Election Commission (EC) has allowed correction of the expatriate Bangladeshis’s address unto 9:00 am on December 9 by the Postal Vote BD app to vote for the 13th national general election and the referendum.
This information was made public on Sunday in a message sent by the EC to the media, Salim Ahmad Khan, Team Leader of the Out of Country Voting System and Implementation project.
The EC said in a message that at the special request of expatriates, the opportunity to correct incorrect or incomplete addresses in the ‘Postal Vote BD’ app has been extended until 9:00 am on December 9. After this date, no further opportunity for address correction will be available.
Meanwhile, the EC has urged the expatriate Bangladeshis to provide accurate addresses during registration through the Postal Vote BD app.
In this regard, the EC stated that to receive the postal ballot, please provide the correct address according to the applicable regulations of the country where you currently reside when registering in the Postal Vote BD app. Without providing a correct and complete address, it will not be possible to send the postal ballot paper to voters.
Earlier, the EC had set December 6 as the deadline for expatriates to correct their addresses in the Postal Vote BD app. Additionally, the voters engaged in election duties and government employees staying outside their own constituencies will be able to register through the Postal Vote BD app and exercise their voting rights from the date of the election schedule announcement until 25 December.
The EC further said that in the 13th general election, voters engaged in election duties, government employees staying outside their own constituencies and voters in legal custody will be able to register through the Postal Vote BD app from the date of the election schedule announcement until 25 December. For details, visit the website of the Bangladesh Election Commission (www.ecs.gov.bd).
So far, 2,27,385 expatriate Bangladeshi voters from different countries around the world have registered through the Postal Vote BD app to vote in the 13th National Parliamentary Election and the Referendum.
This information was available on the Election Commission’s website on Sunday at 2:15 pm.