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Germany

Election framework scored across 6 methodologies, sourced to 4 primary instruments and 212 statute sections.

Overall29.9%EAdI 32.4%EAI 35.7%ECI 58.3%EDRI 31.8%EVCI 38.3%EII 15.1%

Voting Channels

How voters cast a ballot

The voting channels available under current law, each verified against the cited statute.

Election dayElection-day in personall
In-person voting at the polling place on election day.
Bundeswahlgesetz (Federal Elections Act)
EarlyEarly in personnot available
No separate early-voting channel; a postal ballot may be requested and cast in person at the local office, but that is the postal channel exercised in person.
PostalPostal / mailno-excuse
No-excuse postal voting (Briefwahl) available to any voter; the excuse requirement was abolished in 2008.
Bundeswahlgesetz § 36 (Briefwahl)
ProxyProxynot available
No proxy voting.
InternetInternetnot available
No internet voting.

Methodology Radar

Dimension Breakdown

EAdI32.4%

Election Administration Index

Electoral Access Index

Election Campaign-Finance Index

Election Dispute Resolution Index

Election Voter-Confidence Index

Election Integrity Index

Citizen Verifiability13%

Custody Hardware0%

Post Election Audit33%

Software Verifiability0%

Transparency Observation0%

Vendor Independence0%

Voter Access57%

Primary Instruments

Citation	Type	Title	Sections	Status
BWahlG	Statute	BWahlG	54	active
BWO	Statute	BWO	89	active
PartG	Statute	PartG	49	active
WahlPrüfG	Statute	WahlPrüfG	20	active

Methodologies — Datapoint Drill-In

Each methodology card above takes you to Germany's scoring detail for that methodology — every datapoint, with rationale and the exact statute that justifies the score.

EAdI EAI ECI EDRI EVCI EII

For a single datapoint side-by-side across every jurisdiction, see e.g. /atlas/datapoint/1.1.

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