Election Worker Protection Act of 2025

Key Points

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.