Michigan State Representative Kara Hope (D) has written two bills, HB 4129–4130, which criminalize "intimidating" an election official.

America First patriots who have fought for election integrity for years are concerned that these bills are just a thinly-veiled effort to put them in prison for challenging fraudulent ballots in the 2024 election cycle. This would match the ongoing effort by leftists to prosecute, harass, persecute, Donald Trump to keep him off the ballot in 2024.

The proposed Michigan bill reads, in relevant part:

Sec. 931b. (1) An individual shall not intimidate an election official.

(2) An individual shall not prevent an election official from performing the election official's duties.

(3) An individual who violates subsection (1) or (2) is guilty of a felony.

(4) As used in this section:

          (a) "Election official" means a public officer or public employee who has a duty to perform in connection with an election conducted under this act.

         (b) "Intimidate" means to commit harassing conduct that would cause a reasonable individual to feel terrorized, frightened, threatened, harassed, or molested and that actually causes the individual to feel terrorized, frightened, intimidated, threatened, harassed, or molested.

These bills were heard in the Elections Committee of the Michigan House, where Trump-endorsed Rep. Rachelle Smit serves as the Vice Chair of the Committee.

During committee hearings, Rep. Smit offered an amendment to define a poll watcher and ballot challenger as a covered "election official" to make sure this proposed law wasn't used against Republican poll workers and challengers.

The amendment was quickly voted down.