Kan. Stat. Ann. § 25-4612
Optical scanning equipment fraud; criminal penalty
Effective Jul 1, 2023L. 1982, ch. 158, § 12; L. 1993, ch. 291, § 216; L. 2007, ch. 125, § 32; L. 2023, ch. 79, § 61; July 1.
(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.
L. 1982, ch. 158, § 12; L. 1993, ch. 291, § 216; L. 2007, ch. 125, § 32; L. 2023, ch. 79, § 61; July 1.