California lawmakers consider bill to protect poll workers' privacy

Excerpted from KTVU Fox 2

By Greg Lee

"With a political landscape that remains polarized and after several examples of harassment, California lawmakers are now considering a bill to protect election poll workers. 

"People who are frustrated with the conduct of election or the outcome of elections, are starting to take it out on the people administering elections," said the author of the bill, State Senator Josh Newman (D-Fullerton). 

Newman introduced SB1131, which would allow election workers to keep their home addresses private from public record. It would expand on the state’s "Safe at Home" program, which offers the protections to survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault, human trafficking & elder and dependent abuse, as well as reproductive health care workers."

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