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'voter suppression'

Voter suppression bill to ban ballot drop boxes that don't even exist in Arkansas advances

"I respectfully asked a bunch of times what the increased risk for fraud is opposed to what currently exists in mail. I still don't seen any increased risk for fraud. No explanation I heard makes any sense to me," Sen. Clarke Tucker said.
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Candidates and creators meet up for 'The People's Rally' at Hearne Fine Art on Sunday

“This is one of the most important elections in modern history, and we are doing our part to make sure our community participates in the democratic process,” Garbo Hearne said.
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"Worst state in the country for voters," Arkansas election expert Josh Price says

Former Pulaski County Election Commissioner Joshua Ang Price's firsthand experience navigating byzantine rules to get ballots qualified and tallied informs his ongoing work. Now the deputy director of Arkansas United, a nonpartisan immigrants' rights advocacy group, Price continues the battle for ballot access by fighting laws that infringe on voting rights and letting voters know about the headaches they might encounter so they can be prepared.

State senator tried to nix Arkansas's racist, illegal voter suppression law, got no support

State Sen. Clarke Tucker (D-Little Rock) offered up Senate bill 230 in 2021 to repeal the unconstitutional limit on who can help voters on Election Day. 
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Judge strikes down restrictive Arkansas law that violates the Voting Rights Act

A section of Arkansas’s election law that limits who may provide assistance to voters, including those not proficient in English, violates the federal Voting Rights Act.

Arkansas is #2 (and second in extremism among legislators)

A quarter of Arkansas state lawmakers are far-right extremists.
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Joyce Elliott launches Get Loud Arkansas to juice civic participation and hit back on voter suppression

Modeled on successful voter participation efforts in Arizona and Georgia, Get Loud, Arkansas aims to bring disengaged and disenchanted people to the polls.

Arkansas legislators sign bizarre letter that makes phony claims about the 2020 election

Five Arkansas legislators just can't let it go.
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Giving snacks, water to Arkansas voters outlawed under bill now headed for final approval

A House committee passed yet another attack on free and fair elections Monday, voting up a bill that would make it a crime to give water and snacks to Arkansans in line to vote. The law is similar to one that drew national attention when passed in Georgia last month.
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The darkest day yet at the Arkansas Capitol

Republicans take a victory lap, having cleared the way for voter suppression, violent intimidation and forcing women to bear children conceived in rape or incest.
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Vote limitation bill comes out of Senate committee

Vote suppression is popular the Republican-dominated legislature.

Tim Griffin's dirty politics

The Crooks and Liars website passes along information about the origin of a flyer U.S. Rep. Tim Griiffin distributed at a town hall meeting in an effort to tamp down criticism and discourage dissenters.
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