Tampering with voting equipment

1-13-708. Tampering with voting equipment. (1) Any person who, as determined by rules promulgated by the secretary of state in accordance with article 4 of title 24, accesses without authorization, tampers with, or facilitates the unauthorized access to or tampering with any electronic or electromechanical voting equipment or an election-night reporting system before, during, or after any election provided by law is guilty of a class 5 felony and, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished as provided in section 18-1.3-401. (2) Any person who knowingly publishes or causes to be published passwords or other confidential information relating to a voting system shall immediately have their authorized access revoked and is guilty of a class 5 felony. Source: L. 80: Entire article R&RE, p. 434, � 1, effective January 1, 1981. L. 2004: Entire section amended, pp. 1361, 1213, �� 28, 108, effective May 28. L. 2007: Entire section amended, p. 1982, � 33, effective August 3. L. 2022: Entire section amended, (SB 22-153), ch. 322, p. 2283, � 16, effective June 2. Editor's note: This section is similar to former � 1-13-132 as it existed prior to 1980. Cross references: (1) For the legislative declaration contained in the 2004 act amending this section, see section 1 of chapter 334, Session Laws of Colorado 2004. (2) For the short title (Colorado Election Security Act) and the legislative declaration in SB 22-153, see sections 1 and 2 of chapter 322, Session Laws of Colorado 2022.