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House committee amendment advances H.541 to address interference with voters and election officials
Summary
The Vermont House approved a committee amendment to H.541 to create a state criminal offense targeting intentional or reckless intimidation of voters and election officials, with penalties up to two years in jail or a fine up to $2,000; the bill was ordered to third reading after a favorable committee report.
The Vermont House on Tuesday approved a committee amendment to H.541 aimed at criminalizing interference with voters and election officials and ordered the bill for third reading.
Representative Goodnow, speaking for the House Judiciary Committee, said the measure "grapples with 2 fundamental principles of our democracy: first, the right to vote, unmolested and unobstructed; and second, the right to free political speech." The proposal would create a new criminal statute in…
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