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This bill, the Election Worker Protection Act of 2025, establishes comprehensive protections and support for election workers at federal, state, and local levels. The bill creates grant programs to help states recruit, train, and ensure the safety of election workers, with a focus on engaging youth, promoting diversity, and providing culturally competent training. It requires the Department of Justice to review and develop training resources for law enforcement to understand and address threats against election workers. The legislation also introduces new federal criminal penalties for harassing, intimidating, or threatening election workers, with potential fines up to $100,000 and imprisonment for up to 5 years. Additionally, the bill establishes a grant program to protect election workers' personally identifiable information by helping states develop strategies to redact or remove such information from public records, and it expands legal protections to prevent doxxing of election officials. The bill further allows election officials to remove poll observers who engage in or are likely to engage in intimidation or disruptive practices, and it broadens the definition of voter intimidation to include interference with ballot processing, scanning, tabulating, and certification efforts. These provisions aim to safeguard election workers, ensure the integrity of the electoral process, and provide support for those who volunteer their time to manage elections.

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https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/2124/all-info