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Election Interference Legislation

Bills to Allow Partisan Actors to Overturn Election Results

Bills to Impose or Increase Likelihood of Civil or Criminal Penalties for Routine Election Activities and Human Error

Legislation proposed this year would expand the criminalization of election-related activity and empower partisan actors to enforce those provisions.
Bills Politicizing Law Enforcement Authority Related to Elections
Three bills in Texas would politicize law enforcement's authority for election matters. Two bills that were discussed in the December voting roundup would shift criminal law enforcement responsibilities to the secretary of state's office by empowering the secretary to appoint election marshals tasked with investigating violations of election law and filing criminal charges. A third Texas bill would require local district attorneys to prosecute all election crimes or face civil penalties. Such proposals shift criminal law enforcement away from prosecutors, who operate independently from the political branches of government.

Two similar bills were enacted in 2022 in Florida and Georgia. In Florida, the new election crimes office quickly demonstrated the harms of politicizing law enforcement in elections. Five days before the 2022 primary, the governor announced a series of arrests of people with past criminal convictions for allegedly registering to vote or voting in the 2020 election while ineligible. These prosecutions targeted people whose eligibility was made nearly impossible to determine by the state, not cases of deliberate voter fraud.
Bills Imposing New Criminal or Civil Penalties on Election Officials
At least 16 bills in 8 states would impose new criminal or civil penalties on election officials for routine election activities or human error. As discussed before, at least two bills in Arizona and Texas would allow partisan actors to trigger an audit process that could result in civil penalties on election officials. A Nebraska bill would subject an election worker to a misdemeanor for each time they fail to ask for and verify a voter's photo identification. Three bills in Oklahoma, South Dakota, and West Virginia would subject election workers to criminal or civil penalties for failing to allow poll watchers increased latitude to observe election processes. Such proposals disempower election officials from removing disruptive poll watchers and may have a chilling effect on election workers. A similar law was enacted in Texas in 2021 and is currently the subject of litigation brought by the Brennan Center and other organizations.

Bills to Initiate Biased Election Reviews

Lawmakers this year have introduced at least five bills in five states that would permit biased election reviews. These reviews would lack transparency and fail to satisfy basic security, accuracy, and reliability measures. While no biased election review bills were enacted last year, this legislation is part of a continued movement in state legislatures to undermine public faith in the electoral process.

Two bills in Arizona and Texas allow for partisan actors to trigger a vague audit process that could lead to civil penalties on election officials. Both AZ H.B. 2078 and TX H.B. 589 would empower candidates or political party representatives to demand that a local election official provide an explanation and documentation whenever a candidate believes the official violated the election code or that there are "irregularities" in the results. The bills fail to define "irregularities." If the partisan actor is not satisfied with the county local official's response, they may request an audit by the secretary of state, who may ultimately assess civil penalties on the local official for any unremedied violations of the election code.

Bills to Require Hand-Counts

At least five bills in four states would prohibit the use of machines to conduct initial counts of ballots for any election. One Arizona bill would require hand-counts of all Election Day ballots to be completed within 24 hours after polls are closed. Hand-counts in all but the smallest of jurisdictions are slow and extremely error-prone. A recent push for hand-counting ballots is motivated by the false conspiracy theory that voting machines are inaccurate or easily manipulated. While full hand-counts of an individual close contest can help discern each voter's intent, and partial hand-counts are an important part of routine postelection audits of voting machine accuracy, laws requiring complete hand-counts would result in far more errors than vote-tabulating machines and could lead to lengthy delays in certifying election results.

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Election Interference Legislation Legislation proposed this year would expand the criminalization of election-related activity and empower partisan actors to enforce those provisions. Bills Politicizing Law Enforcement Authority Related to Elections Three bills in Texas would politicize law enforcement's authority for election matters.

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