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The Arkansas State Board of Election Commissioners approved a permanent rule on Monday that would prohibit electronic signatures on voter registration forms, except for ones issued at certain state agencies.
In a new brief, nine Republican secretaries of state are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to take a case out of Pennsylvania pushing the independent state legislature theory, a radical legal theory that could upend American elections.
Four Arkansas voter suppression laws will go into effect after the Arkansas Supreme Court issued a ruling earlier today.
Today, the Arkansas Supreme Court issued the final blow to a fringe lawsuit seeking to ban the use of electronic voting machines in the state.
The entire 8th Circuit today denied a request from civil rights groups seeking reconsideration of decision that drastically weakened the Voting Rights Act across seven states.
Two restrictive and dangerous proposed constitutional amendments faced setbacks this week after Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin (R) rejected the proposals’ ballot titles and summaries.
In a catastrophic 2-1 ruling, the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals held that private litigants can no longer bring lawsuits under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act (VRA).
On Friday, Sept. 29, a federal judge dismissed a lawsuit challenging Arkansas’ laws governing the rejection of mail-in ballots.
On Tuesday, July 25, a federal judge dismissed a lawsuit challenging the methods used to elect judges and justices to the Arkansas Court of Appeals and Arkansas Supreme Court respectively.
On Monday, June 12, Black voters in a previously dismissed lawsuit challenging Arkansas’ congressional map appealed their case to the U.S. Supreme Court.