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Originally Posted by Catfish
Ballot machines have been used in Germany
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Wooot...? 
Not to my knowledge, but I could have missed it. But at least not in national elections, of that I'm certain. The Constitutional High Court ruled that using them would be imaginable only under extremely rigid and tight special rules, else their use would be against the Basic Law. These rules as far as I know have not been formed out into legislation in Germany.
You maybe mistake this with that there is one German company producing such machines for the international market.
P.S. Did some Googling and you could be right, I found a message saying that "voting machines used in German elections" have been demonstrated by the Chaos Computer Club to be vulnerable to manipulation. But they did not say which elections that were. I refuse to go voting - did so only on two communal referendums on local issues - , so procedures there may have changed more drastically than I am aware of. But as far as I believed to know it still is the old ink-and-paper thing over here.