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Home » US Law » 2021 Kansas Statutes » Chapter 25 - Elections » Article 46 - Optical Scanning Systems To Count Votes » 25-4612 Optical scanning equipment fraud; penalty.

25-4612. Optical scanning equipment fraud; penalty.
Optical scanning equipment fraud is:

(a) Being in unlawful or unauthorized possession of ballots, optical scanning equipment, computer programs, operating systems, firmware or software; or

(b) 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.

Optical scanning equipment fraud is a severity level 9, nonperson felony.

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