25-4612. Optical scanning equipment fraud; criminal penalty. (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.

History: L. 1982, ch. 158, § 12; L. 1993, ch. 291, § 216; L. 2007, ch. 125, § 32; L. 2023, ch. 79, § 61; July 1.