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Mark Martin tells legislature they're not the boss of him on foreign travel

Legislative Audit says Secretary of State Mark Martin shouldn't have charged a trip he and an aide took to Ghana to taxpayers. Not part of the duties of his office. Martin's office told Legislative Audit they weren't the boss of him.
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No hacking detected in Arkansas, Mark Martin's office says.

Russian election hacking efforts were broader than leaks of security information indicate, Sen. Mark Warner said today. So far, there's no evidence that effort reached into Arkansas, a state official said.
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Mark Martin, not the car driver, doing some Cuban diplomacy

Secretary of State Mark Martin says on social media that he's working on relationships between Cuba and the U.S. Not exactly part of his official portfolio, but what the heck.

Another bump in replacing voting machines statewide

Counties learned this week that they must shoulder half the cost of new voting machines. That could be a problem for some of them.
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Senate thrashes Bryan King bill for Mark Martin oversight of elections

This is good news. Sen. Bryan King's bill to put the state Election Commission under Secretary of State Mark Martin's office failed miserably today, drawing only seven aye votes against 15 nays.

Ghana names an honorary consul in Little Rock

Sherman  Banks, the Little Rock businessman, announces that he's been named honorary counsul of Ghana, the African nation.
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County responses to flawed felon data suggests eligible voters have been removed from rolls

Earlier this summer, Secretary of State Mark Martin’s office passed along flawed data on Arkansas felons to county clerks. We contacted all 75 counties to see how they had decided to handle it. Their responses varied dramatically. In at least 17 counties, clerks took a "shoot first" approach, which almost certainly means eligible voters have been stripped of their rights.

Tim Griffin to seek re-election in 2018

Lt. Gov. Tim Griffin told Andrew DeMillo of the Associated Press today that he'll seek re-election in 2018.
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Good news from the secretary of state

There's good news from the secretary of state's office and it's not that a bunch of Repulicans are talking about running for the office in 2018.

Secretary of State Mark Martin relents on weekend closure of Capitol

Secretary of State Mark Martin, who drew praise from no one, including the governor, for his decision to close the state Capitol on the weekends after the holiday seasons, has relented.
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Secretary of state extends deadline, changes terms on voting machine bid

Secretary of State Mark Martin's office has extended the deadline for companies to submit proposals to sell the state new voting machines and has also changed a part of the specificiations.

The Vile, Socialist, Anti-Christian, Propaganda Edition

The Justin Harris scandal, Tom Cotton in the spotlight, a bill that would allow private charter school operators to take over schools in academic distress, highlights and lowlights from the General Assembly’s bill filing deadline and the persistence of Judge Wendell Griffen — all covered on this week's podcast.
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