Kansas Statutes
§ 25-4612 — Optical scanning equipment fraud; criminal penalty
(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.
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Legislative History
L. 1982, ch. 158, § 12; L. 1993, ch. 291, § 216; L. 2007, ch. 125, § 32; L. 2023, ch. 79, § 61; July 1.
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