The election is 7 days away, and it's worth a moment to ask this question.
If you broke this up into four categories: voting rights, registration, proper counting, and voter identification.....I'd say that Germany is maxed out on the detail of 'free and fair'.
If you can't vote in person....you can vote by mail.
Ballots are hand-counted....not by machine.
The law says as you move (even from one location to a block away)....you have to register your address with the local city hall.
Voting structures rarely if ever move. Some Germans will tell you that they've been voting for 70 years in some village, and the location has been the same place for the whole time.
You have to show up with your national ID card....mandated that you have it in your possession when leaving the house.
Multiple voting? Just about impossible to accomplish once you mix the ID card into the process.
Voting always on a Sunday, when roughly 98-percent of people are off from work.
Voting establishments shut down by 6 PM.
No complicated ballots with 30-odd positions to vote upon, or a dozen referendums to mark.
If any type of accidental screw-up or intentional screw-up occurs.....the head guy for that station is probably finished on the trust issue.
Humble opinion....it's just awful hard to find an example where an election situation has occurred and fraud is suggested.
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