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NJ A337

Bill

Status

Introduced

1/9/2024

Primary Sponsor

Claire Swift

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Origin

General Assembly

2024-2025 Regular Session

AI Summary

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

Committee Referrals

Judiciary1/9/2024

Full Bill Text

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