Rechtsanwalt Dr. Dominik Lück spoke as an expert on electoral law in the CORRECTIV.fact check on the scope of the provisions of Section 108a of the German Criminal Code.

He is quoted as follows: The paragraph does not aim to „protect the voter in his freedom of choice“, but rather criminalises conduct in which a voter is induced to tick a box on the ballot paper that does not correspond to his will, to vote invalidly by placing several crosses, or to carry out an act that he does not realise signifies a vote.

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