Germany heads to the polls

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6. No, they're hand counted

http://www.dw.com/en/german-election-volunteers-organize-the-voting-and-count-the-ballots/a-40562388

Voting in Germany is done with pen and paper, the results are counted by hand.

A volunteer opens the slot of the ballot box for the voter to drop the envelope with his marked ballot inside.

Once the polling stations close at 6 p.m. the volunteers open the ballot box, take out the envelopes and remove the ballot slips. They sort the ballots according to a pre-arranged system, decide on whether the votes are valid or invalid, and count the votes - reading out each vote aloud, which is noted in writing in a log.

At the end, the number of ballots is compared with the number of people who voted in that particular polling station.