Election Worker Protection: Safety, Training, and Data Privacy.
This act aims to enhance the safety of individuals working in elections, such as officials, poll workers, and volunteers. It introduces new grant programs for states to support training, recruitment, and personal data protection for these individuals. The goal is to ensure smoother election processes and protect those involved in their organization.
Key points
Financial support for states to recruit and train election workers, including youth and diverse backgrounds.
Grants for enhancing physical security and social media threat monitoring for election workers.
Prohibition of harassment and intimidation of election workers, with penalties including fines or imprisonment.
Protection of election workers' personal information through programs to remove their data from public records.
Authority to remove poll observers who disrupt voting or ballot counting processes.
Introduced
Citizen Poll