Protecting Our Election Workers Act of 2020

Protecting Our Election Workers Act of 2020

This bill makes it a crime to intimidate, threaten, or coerce (or attempt to do so) an individual (i.e., an election official or a poll worker) for the purpose of interfering with their duties in administering elections.

Violators are subject to criminal penalties—a fine, a prison term of up to one year, or both.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 8964 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 8964

To amend title 18, United States Code, to prohibit the intimidation of 
      election officials and poll workers, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           December 14, 2020

 Ms. Scanlon introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                       Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend title 18, United States Code, to prohibit the intimidation of 
      election officials and poll workers, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Protecting Our Election Workers Act 
of 2020''.

SEC. 2. INTIMIDATION OF VOTERS AND ELECTION OFFICIALS.

    (a) In General.--Section 594 of title 18, United States Code, is 
amended--
            (1) in the heading, by adding at the end the following: 
        ``and election officials'';
            (2) by striking ``Whoever'' and inserting ``(a) 
        Intimidation of Voters--Whoever''; and
            (3) by adding at the end the following:
    ``(b) Intimidation of Election Officials and Poll Workers.--Whoever 
intimidates, threatens, coerces, or attempts to intimidate, threaten, 
or coerce, any other person for the purpose of interfering with such 
other person's duties in connection with the administration of an 
election described in subsection (a), shall be fined under this title 
or imprisoned not more than one year, or both.''.
    (b) Clerical Amendment.--The table of sections for chapter 29 of 
title 18, United States Code, is amended by striking the item related 
to section 594 and inserting the following:

``594. Intimidation of voters and election officials.''.
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