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119.115 Unauthorized possession of key to voting machine -- Tampering
with, injuring, or destroying ballot labels or voting machines.
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Any unauthorized person found in possession of any key to a voting machine
to be used or being used in any primary, general, or special election shall be
guilty of a Class A misdemeanor.
Any person who, during or before any primary, general, or special election,
willfully tampers with or attempts to tamper with, disarrange, deface, or impair
in any manner whatsoever, injures, or destroys any ballot label, or destroys any
such voting machine while in use at an election or at any other time, or who
shall, after such machine is locked and sealed in order to preserve the record
of the vote, tamper with or attempt to tamper with the record 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.
Any election official, or other person entrusted with the custody or control of
any voting machine who, with intent to cause or permit any voting machine to
fail to correctly register votes cast thereon, tampers with or disarranges such
machine in any way, unlawfully opens such voting machine, prevents or
attempts to prevent the correct operation of such voting machine or causes
such voting machine to be used or consents to its being used for any election
with knowledge of the fact that the machine is not in order, or not perfectly set
and adjusted to correctly register all votes cast thereon, or removes, changes,
or mutilates any ballot label on a voting machine shall be guilty of a Class D
felony.
Effective:July 14, 1992
History: Amended 1992 Ky. Acts ch. 463, sec. 11, effective July 14, 1992. -Amended 1990 Ky. Acts ch. 48, sec. 72, effective July 13, 1990. -- Amended
1984 Ky. Acts ch. 111, sec. 65, effective July 13, 1984. -- Created 1974 Ky. Acts
ch. 277, sec. 1.
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