Republican infighting over paper ballots continues, even as election officials say the state’s voting machines are working like they’re supposed to.
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Proposed Arkansas voter registration rule blocks access, opponents say
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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State election board hears comments on e-signatures
The state Board of Election Commissioners held a public hearing on the a rule to prohibit electronic signatures for voter registration.
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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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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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National voter registration group slams Arkansas’s decision to ban electronic signatures
Vote.org is fighting similar restrictions in Florida and Georgia, and the group vowed to fight the Arkansas decision too.
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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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State board seeks to stop Arkansans from e-signing voter registration forms
In 2024, you can electronically sign documents to buy insurance, apply for a credit card or take out a mortgage. But e-signing a voter registration form in Arkansas may soon be forbidden, at least outside of a government office.
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Arkansas AG rejects proposed measure to conduct elections via hand-marked paper ballots
The push for hand-counted paper ballots across the U.S. stem from conspiracies fueled by Donald Trump’s claims that the 2020 election was stolen.
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Trash the vote: Why Arkansas rejects more of its mail-in ballots than almost any other state
Arkansas chucks out more of its absentee ballots than most other states, disenfranchising members of the military, students away at school, people unable to reach the polls for medical reasons and many others.