{"data":{"id":"us-ks/k.s.a.-25-4612","jurisdiction":"us-ks","citation":"K.S.A. 25-4612","heading":"Optical scanning equipment fraud; criminal penalty.","body":"(a) Optical scanning equipment fraud is:\n(1) Being in unlawful or unauthorized possession of ballots, optical scanning equipment, computer programs, operating systems, firmware or software;\n(2) accessing without authorization or facilitating the unauthorized access to optical scanning equipment;\n(3) knowingly publishing or causing to be published any password or other confidential information relating to optical scanning equipment; or\n(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.\n(b) Optical scanning equipment fraud is a severity level 9, nonperson felony.","path":["Chapter 25.—ELECTIONS","Article 46.—OPTICAL SCANNING SYSTEMS TO COUNT VOTES"],"source_url":"https://www.ksrevisor.gov/statutes/chapters/ch25/025_046_0012.html","current_through":"2025 legislative session","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-04T15:11:34Z","sha256":"b9f38d6970f3e2bcb4498faf82d519c507f9654c385c8f45d0fa4f70507e54a1","source_id":"us-ks","stale":false,"prev":"us-ks/k.s.a.-25-4611","next":"us-ks/k.s.a.-25-4613"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}