, Jan. 27 -- More than 4.25 lakh expatriate Bangladeshis living in different countries across the world have so far cast their votes in the upcoming national election and referendum scheduled for February 12.

"As of 10:30am on Tuesday, a total of 425,788 expatriate voters completed their voting process and of them, 370,322 ballot papers have been dropped in post offices and post boxes in different countries across the world," said Brig Gen (retd) Saleem Ahmad Khan, Team Leader of the Election Commission's OCV-ICPV project.

He said a total of 766,862 postal ballots reached different destinations throughout the world for Out-of-Country Voting (OCV) and of them, 493,920 ballots have already been received by the registered expatriates in va...