{"id":2129,"date":"2021-04-23T12:56:53","date_gmt":"2021-04-23T16:56:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/icap\/?page_id=2129"},"modified":"2025-05-12T11:15:20","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T15:15:20","slug":"guidance-related-to-elections-and-polling-places","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/icap\/our-work\/guidance-related-to-elections-and-polling-places\/","title":{"rendered":"Guidance Related to Elections and Polling Places"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/icap\/our-work\/addressing-the-rise-of-unlawful-private-paramilitaries\/state-fact-sheets\/\">Fact sheets<\/a> for all 50 states explaining the laws barring unauthorized private militia groups and what to do if groups of armed individuals are near a polling place or voter registration drive<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/icap\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2024\/08\/Voter-Intimidation-Fact-Sheet.pdf\">Fact sheet<\/a> on voter intimidation laws, what kinds of conduct could constitute voter intimidation, and what to do if you experience voter intimidation<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/icap\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2024\/08\/ICAP-Election-Official-Guidance.pdf\" aria-label=\"guidance outlining actions election officials can take to address and prevent voter intimidation, including by armed individuals or groups\">Guidance<\/a> outlining actions election officials can take to address and prevent voter intimidation, including by armed individuals or groups<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/icap\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2022\/11\/Police-at-the-Polls.pdf\">Guidance<\/a> on law enforcement&#8217;s role in ensuring safe voter participation at the polls<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/icap\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2024\/08\/Regulating-Poll-Observers.pdf\">Guidance<\/a> on the authority of state government to regulate poll observer conduct<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/icap\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2024\/08\/Managing-Vehicular-Protest-.pdf\">Guidance<\/a> on managing vehicular protests during election season<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/icap\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2022\/09\/Constitutional-Sheriffs-Fact-Sheet.pdf\">Fact sheet<\/a> on the &#8220;constitutional sheriffs&#8221; movement and the limits on sheriffs&#8217; authority to involve themselves in election administration<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/icap\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2024\/08\/Video-Recording-at-Polling-Places.pdf\" aria-label=\"fact sheet on video recording in or near polling places\">Fact sheet<\/a> on video recording in or near polling places<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/icap\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2022\/06\/Guidance-to-Mitigate-the-Threat-of-Political-Violence-Throughout-Election-Periods.pdf\">Guidance<\/a> for election, law enforcement, and public safety officials to mitigate the threat of political violence throughout an election period<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/icap\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2024\/08\/Fact-Sheet-on-Threats-Related-to-the-Election.pdf\">Fact sheet<\/a>\u2014in response to the increase in threats against public officials and private individuals whose jobs involve election integrity or tabulating and certifying the vote\u2014making clear, with legal support, that threats and incitement to violence are not protected by the First Amendment and violate a number of federal and state criminal laws<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/icap\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2020\/11\/Protecting-the-Count-Law-Enforcement-Guidance-11.4.20.pdf\" aria-label=\"guidance for law enforcement about how to protect election staff and ballots during the vote counting period, while also protecting First Amendment rights during public demonstrations\">Guidance<\/a> for law enforcement about how to protect election staff and ballots during the vote counting period, while also protecting First Amendment rights during public demonstrations<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/icap\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2020\/10\/Proteccion-contra-la-intimidacion-de-los-votantes.pdf\">Un recurso<\/a>, en espa\u00f1ol, sobre protecci\u00f3n contra la intimidaci\u00f3n de votantes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fact sheets for all 50 states explaining the laws barring unauthorized private militia groups and what to do if groups of armed individuals are near a polling place or voter [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":100,"featured_media":0,"parent":38,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"footnotes":"","_tec_slr_enabled":"","_tec_slr_layout":""},"class_list":["post-2129","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"ticketed":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/icap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/icap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/icap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/icap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/100"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/icap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2129"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/icap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4147,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/icap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2129\/revisions\/4147"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/icap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/38"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/icap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}