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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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119.115 Unauthorized possession of key to voting machine -- Tampering with, injuring, or destroying ballot labels or voting machines. (1) 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 <br>Class A misdemeanor. (2) 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 <br>manner whatsoever, injures, or destroys any ballot label, or destroys any such voting <br>machine while in use at an election or at any other time, or who shall, after such <br>machine is locked and sealed in order to preserve the record of the vote, tamper <br>with or attempt to tamper with the record of the vote, or who aids or abets with <br>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 who, with intent to cause or permit any voting machine to fail to <br>correctly register votes cast thereon, tampers with or disarranges such machine in <br>any way, unlawfully opens such voting machine, prevents or attempts to prevent the <br>correct operation of such voting machine or causes such voting machine to be used <br>or consents to its being used for any election with knowledge of the fact that the <br>machine is not in order, or not perfectly set and adjusted to correctly register all <br>votes cast thereon, or removes, changes, or mutilates any ballot label on a voting <br>machine shall be guilty of a Class D felony. Effective: July 14, 1992 <br>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 <br>ch. 111, sec. 65, effective July 13, 1984. -- Created 1974 Ky. Acts ch. 277, sec. 1.