Ballot Papers
(1) The ballot papers and the required envelopes for the postal ballot (section 36 subsection (1)) must be produced by the government.
(2) The ballot paper contains:
1. for constituency elections, the names of the candidates from the admitted constituency nominations; in the case of constituency nominations by parties, also the names of these parties as well as any shortened form of the party name that the party may use; in the case of other non-party constituency nominations, also the identifying name;
2. for Land list elections, the names of the parties and any shortened form of the party name that the party may use as well as the names of the first five candidates from the admitted Land lists.
(3) The order of the Land lists of parties is determined by the number of second votes that the parties received at the last Bundestag election in the Land concerned. The remaining Land lists then follow in alphabetical order of the names of the parties. The order of the constituency nominations is determined by the order of the corresponding Land lists. Other constituency nominations then follow in alphabetical order of the names of the parties or identifying names.