As election offices struggle to staff the polls this year out of #safety concerns, #Illinois voters will be able to weigh in on a measure that would increase penalties for anyone who interferes w/ #ElectionWorkers’ duties.
The “stolen election” #BigLie from #Trump & his supporters has meant that in swing states across the country, #election officials are quitting or retiring after facing an onslaught of #threats & #harassment.
#Illinois #Ballot Question Asks If Candidates Who Intimidate #ElectionWorkers Should Be Punished
With a little-used #legislative tool, state legislators are asking #voters to weigh in on whether intimidating election workers, which is already illegal, should be made more illegal.
#Election2024 #law #USpol #ILpol
https://www.notus.org/2024-election/illinois-voting-election-integrity
Judge Orders #Giuliani to Forfeit Millions in Assets to #ElectionWorkers He #Defamed
The onetime personal attorney to #Trump has seven days to turn over his Manhattan condo, a vintage Mercedes-Benz & other possessions.
A federal judge on Tues ordered Rudolph W. Giuliani to turn over most of his possessions & available cash to a receivership controlled by the 2 #Georgia election workers he defamed after the last presidential #election.
#law
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/22/us/politics/giuliani-defamation-forfeit-assets.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
Fight, fight, fight! I've served as an election judge and will do so again! All hands!
Local election workers are quitting at ‘an unprecedented rate’ because of ‘threats and harassment’
https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/watch/local-election-workers-are-quitting-at-an-unprecedented-rate-because-of-threats-and-harassment-218455621791
DC #ElectionWorkers have been fielding angry calls & emails for over a month from people who oppose allowing #noncitizen residents to #vote in local #elections, leaving the head of the DC Board of Elections concerned about #safety at the polls in Tues’s primary.
“I am definitely nervous,” said Monica Evans, BOE exec dir. “The environment around elections has felt more unsafe.”
#democracy #law
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2024/06/03/dc-election-workers-noncitizen-voters/
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#RudyGiuliani has agreed to NEVER again publicly accuse #Georgia #ElectionWorkers #RubyFreeman & #ShayeMoss of tampering w/ballots in the 2020 election, a lie he has incessantly repeated & that led to his bankruptcy
The permanent #injunction ends Giuliani’s yrs of attacks on Freeman & Moss.
It also gives the women #power to hold him accountable if he ever again suggests they took votes from #Trump /gave votes to #Biden
#law
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24678784-giuliani-agreement
#ElectionWorkers like me rejoice
#Vote 
A #DC #jury is set to begin considering how much to award 2 #Georgia #ElectionWorkers who became targets of #violent #threats & smear campaigns after #Giuliani & #Trump falsely accused them of manipulating ballots in the #2020election.
Attys for #RubyFreeman & #ShayeMoss are urging the… panel to award the women $24M apiece for Giuliani’s #defamation …, which …ignited years of threats, professional & personal consequences & devastation of their #MentalHealth.
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/12/14/rudy-giuliani-jury-georgia-election-00131796
More states' election offices report suspicious envelopes, several test positive for fentanyl https://politicaliq.com/2023/11/10/more-states-election-offices-report-suspicious-envelopes-several-test-positive-for-fentanyl/ #Washington #Georgia #California #Oregon #Nevada #Texas #Fentanyl #Election2023 #ElectionWorkers #DomesticTerrorism #politicaliq #news #politics
"Election workers have left the field in droves in recent years in the face of hostility. In a nearby #Virginia county, an entire election office resigned. But Gibbons, like an increasing number, is fighting back. She filed suit, part of a wave of recent #lawsuits by #ElectionWorkers who say they feel compelled to battle false allegations inspired by Donald Trump’s #BigLie "
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2023/11/02/lynchburg-elections-registrar-lawsuit/
"the #voting registrar headed out her door at 4am. She was wheeling her car out of the driveway when she caught sight of something...
“Christine Gibbons Belongs in Jail,” read a sign hung on a bush in front of her home. “#LOCKHERUP.”
Gibbons had warily watched the rise in #threats, #harassment & allegations of #fraud hurled at #ElectionWorkers nationwide, but now the storm had arrived in her city in central #Virginia "
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2023/11/02/lynchburg-elections-registrar-lawsuit/
