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Kentucky · Snapshot 09/05/2026

KRS 119.115: Unauthorized possession of key to voting machine, equipment, or system --

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  1. KRS Chapter 119

Tampering with, injuring, or destroying ballot, e -poll book, administration

information system, machine, equipment, or system.

(1) Any unauthorized person found in poss ession of any key to a voting machine,

voting equipment, or voting system to be used or being used in any primary, regular

election, or special election shall be guilty of a Class A misdemeanor.

(2) Any person who, during or before any primary, regular ele ction, or special election,

willfully tampers with or attempts to tamper with, disarrange, deface, impair in any

manner whatsoever, injures, or destroys any ballot, e -poll book, election

administration information system, voting machine, voting equipment, or voting

system while in use at an election or at any other time, or who shall, after such

voting machine, voting equipment, or voting system is locked and sealed in order to

preserve the record of the vote, tamper with or attempt to tamper with the recor d of

the vote, or who aids or abets with intent to destroy or change the record of the vote

shall be guilty of a Class D felony.

(3) Any election official, or other person entrusted with the custody or control of any

voting machine, voting equipment, or vo ting system shall be guilty of a Class D

felony if he or she knowingly and intentionally:

(a) Causes or permits any voting machine, voting equipment, or voting system to

fail to correctly register or count votes cast, tampers with or disarranges such

voting machine, voting equipment, or voting system in any way;

(b) Unlawfully opens a voting machine, voting equipment, or voting system;

(c) Prevents or attempts to prevent the correct operation of a voting machine,

voting equipment, or voting system;

(d) Causes a voting machine, voting equipment, or voting system to be used or

consents to its being used for any election with knowledge of the fact that the

voting machine, voting equipment, or voting system is not in order, or not

perfectly set and adjusted to correctly register all votes cast;

(e) Removes, changes, or mutilates any ballot; or

(f) Directly connects or attempts to directly connect a voting machine, voting

equipment, or voting system that tabulates or aggregates votes to a public

network, including the internet, at any time.

Collected 2026-09-05T20:50:17Z. Source file · JSON

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