Germany's interior ministry on Friday warned of a Russian disinformation operation attempting to influence the country's federal election campaign with fake videos spreading on social media in Hamburg and Leipzig.

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Polls have shown that about 20% of the German electorate remained undecided ahead of election day, while close to 60 million people are eligible to vote.

Stories of a pre-election state of emergency, police escorts for toddlers and forged ballot papers -- a blizzard of online disinformation has targeted German voters ahead of Sunday's election. One recent false post claimed Chancellor Olaf Scholz had imposed a state of emergency so as to delay Sunday's elections.