Protecting Election Administration from Interference Act of 2025

This bill changes rules about keeping records from federal elections. Currently, election officials must keep all election records and papers for 22 months after an election, and this bill extends that requirement to electronic records and election equipment too. The bill tells a government cybersecurity agency to create standards for how to properly store and protect these records and equipment. It makes it a crime to recklessly handle election records in ways that could lead to them being stolen, destroyed, hidden, damaged, or changed. The bill also allows the Department of Justice to demand access to electronic records and equipment for inspection, and lets the Justice Department and federal candidates sue to force compliance with these record-keeping rules.

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