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Official title: Prohibit deceptive practices in Federal elections.
Introduced September 18, 2025 by Angela Deneece Alsobrooks · Last progress September 18, 2025
The bill strengthens federal tools to detect, correct, and punish election misinformation and intimidation—helping protect voters (especially minorities) and secure vote counting—but does so at the cost of greater federal involvement, enforcement and compliance costs, privacy trade‑offs, and risks of chilling lawful political speech and local distrust.
All voters—especially racial, ethnic, and language-minority communities—would face less materially false information about when, where, and how to vote within 60 days of federal elections because the bill strengthens legal protections and enables federal corrective action.
State and local election officials (and DOJ) gain clearer federal support, coordinated procedures, and authorized funding to identify, correct, and deter misleading election communications more quickly.
Election integrity is strengthened by expanding civil and criminal tools—such as injunctions against false‑information campaigns, prohibitions on fake polling places/ballot boxes, and clearer federal standards for interference with ballot processing and certification—which helps protect poll workers, election officials, and post‑voting procedures.
Civic organizations, social media users, volunteers, and peaceful protestors could face chilled or curtailed lawful political speech because broader liability and enforcement against false statements or interference may deter legitimate outreach and on-the-ground participation.
State and local election officials and many voters may perceive Attorney General communications and federal corrective actions as federal overreach or partisan intrusion into state-run elections, heightening federalism tensions and public distrust.
Taxpayers, DOJ, state and local governments, and technology firms could face meaningful new costs from enforcement, litigation, compliance, and responding to legal actions or publishing reports.
Based on analysis of 7 sections of legislative text.
Makes knowingly false voting information and AI‑generated election lies criminal and civil violations, requires DOJ corrective communications, and expands protections for vote processing and certification.
Creates new federal crimes and civil remedies to stop deceptive communications and intimidation intended to suppress voting in federal elections, explicitly covering false information about when, where, or how to vote and use of artificial intelligence to produce such lies within 60 days of a federal election. Directs the Attorney General to issue public corrections when credible falsehoods are being spread and to submit post‑election reports to Congress cataloging allegations, investigations, and enforcement actions; it also expands existing criminal protection to cover interference with ballot processing, tabulation, canvassing, and certification.