Arkansas Elections

Board will hear Searcy County election officials’ challenge to decertification Wednesday

Chris Jones filed Federal Election Commission paperwork to challenge the six-term Republican congressman

Arkansas’ State Board of Election Commissioners voted Wednesday to reprimand and decertify a poll supervisor accused of violating state election laws at a North Arkansas polling place last year.

The League of Women Voters of Arkansas on Tuesday asked a judge to temporarily block enforcement of several new state laws regulating direct democracy that it argued are unconstitutional.

State election regulators decertified all three members of the Searcy County Election Commission on Wednesday over allegations the commission accepted an equipment donation in violation of state rules.

The groups plan to sue the state while they work to pass an amendment rolling back restrictions to direct democracy.

State Board of Election Commissioners also vote to sanction a county’s entire election commission

The amendment seeks to walk back legislative hurdles to the direct democracy process.

The Arkansas nonprofits put forward bills that accomplish the same things with nuanced processes.

A slate of new laws make it extremely difficult for grassroots attempts to amend the state constitution.