Dhaka, Nov. 29 -- Nearly 87,000 expatriate Bangladeshi voters from different countries across the world have so far registered through a mobile app, 'Postal Vote Bd', in the past 10 days to vote in the upcoming national election and the referendum.

The Election Commission (EC) on November 19 opened the 'Postal Vote Bd' app initially for 53 countries and then for a total of 143 countries.

But on November 27, the EC suspended the registration process for the expatriates living in seven countries -- Bahrain, Kuwait, Malaysia, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) after many applicants input incorrect or incomplete mailing addresses.

As of 7:10 pm on Saturday, a total of 86,844 expatriates-72,938 males and 13,906 fem...