Dhaka, Feb. 9 -- More than one million people, including expatriates have cast their votes through postal ballots till Monday night under 'Out-of-Country Voting (OCV) and 'In-Country Postal Voting (ICPV)' project in the referendum and 13th parliamentary election scheduled to be held on Thursday (February 12).

A total of 1,035,687 people, including 512,331 expatriates from more than 120 countries across the world, voted through postal ballots till 9pm on Monday, according to the statistics of the Election Commission.

The people who already voted through the postal ballots also include 523,356 government employees working outside their constituencies, polling officials and prisoners.

Among the 512,331 expatriates, the highest 158,731 Ban...