119.115 Unauthorized possession of key to voting machine -- Tampering with, injuring, or destroying ballot labels or voting machines. - Kentucky Statutes

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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
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
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. (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
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.