§ 17-19-47 - Improper possession of voting equipment keys or duplicates. - Rhode Island Statutes

SECTION 17-19-47

   § 17-19-47  Improper possession of votingequipment keys or duplicates. – Any unauthorized person who makes a duplicate of, or has in his or herpossession, a key to any voting equipment used at any election, or any electionofficer who keeps one or more keys to the voting equipment and fails or refusesto return them immediately after the election to the officer charged by lawwith the duty of caring for the keys, and any custodian who keeps one or moreof the keys after he or she has prepared the voting equipment for election andrefuses to turn the keys over to the officer charged by law with the care ofthe keys, and any officer charged by law with the care of the keys who keepsthe keys and refuses to deliver them over to the officer's successor in office,shall be guilty of a felony.