I wonder if they are using electronic voting machines that will deliver the government’s preprogramed results or those old fashioned paper ballots that cause so much trouble when manipulating the counts.
Voting in Germany is generally always paper. The ballot simply lists parties, and you mark which party you support. You don’t vote for country commissioners, dog-catchers, mayors, etc. So a small polling station with 4,000 voters...could count up votes in thirty minutes fairly easily.