Dhaka, Feb. 5 -- Nearly 380,000 postal ballots cast by expatriate Bangladeshis have reached the country so far.

Salim Ahmad Khan, team leader of the Election Commission's Out of Country Voting (OCV) System Development and Implementation (SDI) Project, said that 379,924 postal ballots had arrived as of 9:30am on Thursday.

According to the postal ballot app, 480,416 expatriates have already voted. Of these, 444,952 have cast their votes and submitted their ballots to the post offices or mailboxes in their respective countries.

The Election Commission (EC) has sent out postal ballots to a total of 766,862 expatriates ahead of the 13th parliamentary election and referendum on Feb 12. As of Friday afternoon, 526,008 expatriates had received...