Opponents to a rule requiring “wet signatures” on Arkansas voter registration forms crowded into a public hearing room Thursday to voice concerns about barriers to voting they say would result from the rule’s adoption.
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Joyce Elliott, former state senator and liberal stalwart, has suffered a stroke
According to her family, Elliott underwent surgery and is recovering in Little Rock.
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‘Wet signature’ requirement for voter registration goes up for public comment
Arkansas continues to fend off would-be voters with arduous and outdated rules and requirements.
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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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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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Young Dems to converge on the Capitol
Young Democrats of Arkansas invites all Arkansans under the age of 36 to attend their 79th Annual Convention, April 26-28 at the state Capitol.
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State election board tightens voter registration process, advocates call it ‘deliberate voter suppression’
Get Loud Arkansas’s leader Joyce Elliott said they’re considering a lawsuit over the recent restrictive changes. The organization will host a voter rights rally at 5:15 p.m. on the Capitol steps.
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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.
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Advice to bank on, from the women who lead Little Rock
In honor of National Women’s Month, we’re passing the microphone to a few of Central Arkansas’s women leaders across various spheres — business, government, the arts and education.
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Secretary of state warns against voter registration e-signatures; Pulaski clerk says she’ll keep taking them
Mixed messages from the the Arkansas secretary of state about the validity of electronic signatures on voter registration forms is causing confusion.