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Panel replaces multiple election-interference offenses with single offense and sets criminal standard at 'reckless'
Summary
Committee reviewed a draft that removes four Senate-origin offenses and inserts a single offense prohibiting intentional or reckless intimidation, threats or coercion of voters and election officials, with penalties described as up to two years imprisonment or a $1,000 fine; counsel explained 'recklessness' is the constitutional floor for criminal threatening.
The Government Operations & Military Affairs committee reviewed a substitution in draft 1.9 that removes four criminal and civil offenses from the Senate version and replaces them with a single section on interference with voters and election officials.
Counsel read the replacement provision aloud and summarized its elements, saying the new text would make it unlawful for "any person [to] intentionally and recklessly intimidate, threaten,…
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