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Senate Bill 2928
117th Congress(2021-2022)
Election Worker and Polling Place Protection Act
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Introduced in Senate on Oct 4, 2021
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S. 2928 (Introduced-in-Senate)


117th CONGRESS
1st Session
S. 2928


To amend section 245 of title 18, United States Code, to expand protections for election workers, polling places, and other election infrastructure against threats and violence.

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

October 4, 2021

Mr. Ossoff introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

A BILL

To amend section 245 of title 18, United States Code, to expand protections for election workers, polling places, and other election infrastructure against threats and violence.

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 “Election Worker and Polling Place Protection Act”.

SEC. 2. Federally protected activities.

Section 245 of title 18, United States Code, is amended—

(1) in subsection (b)—

(A) in the matter preceding paragraph (1), by striking “willfully” and inserting “, or violence, or threat of harm to any person or property, intentionally”;

(B) in paragraph (1)(A), by inserting “, or any agent, contractor, or vendor of a legally authorized election official assisting in the administration of any primary, special, or general election” before the semicolon at the end; and

(C) in the undesignated matter following paragraph (5), by striking “of this section” each place it appears and inserting “of this subsection”;

(2) by redesignating subsections (c) and (d) as subsections (d) and (e), respectively; and

(3) by inserting after subsection (b) the following:

“(c) (1) Whoever, whether or not acting under color of law, intentionally physically damages or threatens to physically damage any physical property being used as a polling place or tabulation center or other election infrastructure shall be fined under this title, or imprisoned not more than 1 year, or both; and if bodily injury results from the acts committed in violation of this subsection or if such acts include the use, attempted use, or threatened use of a dangerous weapon, explosives, or fire shall be fined under this title, or imprisoned not more than 10 years, or both; and if death results from the acts committed in violation of this subsection or if such acts include kidnapping or an attempt to kidnap, aggravated sexual abuse or an attempt to commit aggravated sexual abuse, or an attempt to kill, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned for any term of years or for life, or both.

“(2) For purposes of this subsection, de minimus damage or threats of de minimus damage to physical property, such as graffiti, shall not be considered a violation of paragraph (1).

“(3) In this subsection, the term ‘election infrastructure’ means any office of an election official, staff, worker, or volunteer or any physical, mechanical, or electrical device, structure, or tangible item used in the process of creating, distributing, voting, returning, counting, tabulating, auditing, storing, or other handling of voter registration or ballot information.”.