Election Worker Protection Act of 2025
Sen. Klobuchar Pushes Election Worker Protection Act to Combat Threats and Doxxing
The Election Worker Protection Act of 2025 is currently in the early stages of the legislative process. It was recently sent to the Senate Committee on Rules and Administration for review. No further actions are scheduled at this time, and the bill is considered active.
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- The bill creates a new federal crime for harassing, threatening, or intimidating election workers, with penalties of up to $100,000 in fines and five years in prison. This targets anyone who tries to interfere with or retaliate against people running elections.
From policy text
“It shall be unlawful for any person, whether acting under color of law or otherwise, to intimidate, threaten, coerce, or attempt to intimidate, threaten, or coerce an election worker with intent to impede, intimidate, or interfere with that election worker while the election worker is engaged in the performance of official duties”
View in full text - States would receive federal grants to recruit and train new poll workers and election volunteers, with special focus on reaching young people and ensuring staff diversity across race, ethnicity, and disability status.
- A separate grant program would fund physical security for election workers and social media threat monitoring. States could also get grants to remove or hide the personal information of election workers from public databases.
From policy text
“make a grant to each eligible State for physical security services and social media threat monitoring for election workers”
View in full text - The FBI would be required to assign a special agent at every field office across the country to investigate threats against election workers, creating a dedicated law enforcement pipeline for these cases.
From policy text
“The Attorney General, acting through the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, shall assign a special agent to each field office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation to investigate threats against election workers.”
View in full text - Election officials would gain clear authority to remove poll observers who are being disruptive or intimidating. The bill also makes it a crime to interfere with ballot processing, tabulation, canvassing, or certification of results.
From policy text
“A State or local election official may remove a poll observer from a polling location for an election for Federal office or any location where processing, scanning, tabulating, canvassing, or certifying voting results in such an election is occurring”
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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Rules and Administration.
Sent to a congressional committee for expert review. The committee decides whether this bill moves forward.
Introduced in Senate
The bill was officially filed and given a number. It now enters the legislative queue.
Source Information
Document Type
Congressional Bill
Official Title
Election Worker Protection Act of 2025
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