Kansas Statutes 25-4612. Optical scanning equipment fraud; criminal penalty
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Terms Used In Kansas Statutes 25-4612
- Ballot: means a paper ballot on which candidates' names or questions are printed and which is designed to receive opaque marks which can be detected by optical scanning equipment and which is capable of being counted manually. See Kansas Statutes 25-4601
- Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
- Optical scanning equipment: means apparatus designed to examine and detect opaque marks on ballots which represent votes and count and tabulate those votes by electronic methods. See Kansas Statutes 25-4601
- System: means an optical scanning system of automatically counting and tabulating ballots with optical scanning equipment. See Kansas Statutes 25-4601
(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.