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Kansas Statutes § 25-4612 Optical scanning equipment fraud; criminal penalty

⤴ Up to Article 46: Optical Scanning Systems to Count Votes

Statute Text

(a) Optical scanning equipment fraud is:
(1) Being in unlawful or unauthorized possession of ballots, optical scanning equipment, computer programs, operating systems, firmware or software;
(2) accessing without authorization or facilitating the unauthorized access to optical scanning equipment;
(3) knowingly publishing or causing to be published any password or other confidential information relating to optical scanning equipment; or
(4) intentionally tampering with, altering, disarranging, defacing, impairing or destroying any optical scanning equipment or component part thereof, or any ballot, operating system, firmware or software used by a system.
(b) Optical scanning equipment fraud is a severity level 9, nonperson felony.

History

Amended by L. 2023 , ch. 79 , § 61 , eff. 7/1/2023 .

L. 1982, ch. 158, § 12; L. 1993, ch. 291, § 216; L. 2007 , ch. 125 , § 32; July 1.

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