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A campaign to bolster direct democracy in Arkansas suffered a setback this week, when the state supreme court dismissed a lawsuit to put a pro-direct democracy ballot measure before voters this November.
A federal judge struck down several Arkansas laws that made it harder for people in the state to pass ballot initiatives. Chief U.S. District Judge Timothy L. Brooks invalidated laws that require petition signers to have photo ID, require a warning for all prospective signers on petition fraud, make petition signers read the proposed ballot […]
The U.S. Supreme Court declined Monday to hear a lawsuit challenging Arkansas’ law that criminalizes helping more than six voters cast ballots. The decision leaves the law in effect and means that individuals in seven states are barred from suing to enforce a provision of the Voting Rights Act (VRA) aimed at protecting voters with disabilities or who face language barriers.
Arkansas voters won’t be blocked from registering electronically due to federal appeals court order.
A federal appeals court ruled that Arkansas cannot enforce a restrictive voter registration rule requiring a handwritten signature to register to vote.
In a major win for Arkansas voters, a federal court blocked state officials from enforcing a set of laws that threatened to shut down citizen-led ballot initiatives altogether.
After Donald Trump lashed out against voting by mail, a few Republican officials disagreed — politely! — with the president’s plans for an unconstitutional executive order.
An absentee voter himself, Trump railed against mail-in ballots and “Seriously Controversial VOTING MACHINES,” in a social media post Monday morning, which he reiterated in rambling remarks at the White House that afternoon.
The 8th Circuit Court of Appeals held that voters and private organizations can no longer sue under Section 208
Pro-voting groups in Arkansas are asking a federal court to block a wave of state laws that they say restrict direct democracy.
Much of President Donald Trump’s anti-voting executive order has been blocked by judges. But it’s having an impact nonetheless — by encouraging and emboldening state-level Republicans to pursue its anti-democratic goals.
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