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NJ A337
Bill
Status
1/9/2024
Primary Sponsor
Claire Swift
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AI Summary
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Creates disorderly persons offenses for intimidating, threatening, or coercing election officials or election workers in writing or via electronic means while they perform their duties
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Establishes a disorderly persons offense for attempting to induce an election official to violate their duty or for knowingly preventing election officials or workers from performing official duties
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Makes it a disorderly persons offense to knowingly post personal information online about an election official or their immediate family when it poses an imminent and serious threat to their safety
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Allows election workers to submit written requests to the Division of Elections to remove their personal information (home address, phone number, email, photographs, vehicle information) from publicly available Internet records
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Existing crimes of intimidating voters or fraudulently affecting elections remain second-degree crimes, with election officials who commit such offenses permanently barred from serving
Legislative Description
Creates offenses related to election officials; permits election workers to shield personal information from public.
Judiciary
Last Action
Introduced, Referred to Assembly Judiciary Committee
1/9/2024