Lakey Goff, the artist behind the idea of a “living wall” of flora for the monument, proposed placing the monument in the grassy space behind the Capitol and to the north of the Supreme Court building.
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Voter registration groups sue over Arkansas’s abrupt rejection of e-signatures on forms
Get Loud’s lawsuit, which seeks relief under the 1964 Civil Rights Act, draws a direct link to the disenfranchisement of Black voters in the segregated South.
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U.S. Supreme Court revives Arkansas gerrymandering case, but plaintiffs face long odds
Reversing a dismissal just to make the plaintiffs try to meet an even tougher standard is nasty work for the high court.
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Arkansas Supreme Court greenlights four laws that make voting harder
“While the right to vote has been held to be fundamental, the right to vote in a particular manner is not guaranteed,” the state Supreme Court said Thursday.
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Lawmakers adopt emergency rule barring electronic signatures for would-be voters
“There is no problem with integrity in voting in Arkansas. We are making up stuff. We’re suppressing the vote. That’s the bottom line,” former state Sen. Joyce Elliott said.
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Lawmakers to consider emergency rule to make voter registration harder
While it’s a quaint idea to require some Founding Fathers John Hancock cosplay for aspiring participants in democracy, such analog transactions are inconvenient, unnecessary and no longer the norm.
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Arkansas lawmakers to examine new voter registration signature rule
The Arkansas Board of Election Commissioners is asking state lawmakers to approve an emergency rule that would require would-be voters to sign applications with a pen on paper, barring online options.
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Secretary of state requests $3.6 million to double State Capitol Police officers
Arkansas Secretary of State John Thurston has requested the legislature to double the amount of State Capitol Police officers providing security near the Capitol.
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Attorney general pushes back on Get Loud’s strategy to register more voters
An attorney general opinion seems to greenlight electronic signatures for voter registration applications, but is less clear on digital application forms. The voting rights group Get Loud Arkansas says they’re confident their new system passes the test.
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Some AR county clerks will honor electronic signatures for voter registration, some won’t
A clever fix to get more Arkansans on the rolls and to the polls is fielding predictable backlash from members of the political party that’s more likely to win when fewer people can vote.