Dhaka, Dec. 30 -- The Election Commission (EC) has dispatched postal ballot papers to 376,309 Bangladeshi expatriate voters in different countries over the past 10 days, enabling them to participate in the 13th Jatiya Sangsad election and the referendum.

Salim Ahmad Khan, team leader of the Out of Country Voting System Development and Implementation (OCV-SDI) project for expatriate voter registration confirmed that the ballots were sent on Sunday and during the preceding nine days to expatriate voters across the globe.

He said registration for in-country postal voting is also expected to increase, expressing hope that the number of registered voters-including government employees, officials engaged in election duties and voters in legal...