A newly formed group asked the Arkansas Supreme Court on Thursday to disqualify an anti-casino ballot measure that Secretary of State John Thursday approved Wednesday.| Arkansas Advocate
Arkansans for Patient Access collected 85% of the required number of valid signatures from registered voters and has until Aug. 30 to submit more.| Arkansas Advocate
Supporters of four proposed Arkansas ballot measures delivered petitions to the Secretary of State at the Capitol on Friday in hopes they will be certified for November’s statewide ballot.| Arkansas Advocate
An applicant for the Pope County casino license filed a lawsuit Tuesday asking the court to invalidate the recently-awarded permit because the license holder’s requisite letters of support from local government were “coercively issued.”| Arkansas Advocate
Secretary of State John Thurston must “file an answer to the original action petition” by 9 a.m. Monday, the court ordered Friday.| Arkansas Advocate
The numbers in Thursday’s affidavit bring the total number of signatures submitted up to 102,730, more than 1,200 above AFLG’s estimate.| Arkansas Advocate
The Arkansas Supreme Court Tuesday night ordered Secretary of State John Thurston to count signatures collected by volunteer canvassers for a proposed ballot initiative to expand abortion access. The state’s high court ordered the count to be completed by 9 a.m. Monday.| Arkansas Advocate
The ballot question committee asserted that Thurston’s office is required to count every signature regardless of the validity of the paid canvassers’ signatures.| Arkansas Advocate
Arkansans for Limited Government did not submit a required affidavit while supporters of other ballot measures did, Secretary of State John Thurston said.| Arkansas Advocate
Thurston was among the Republican elected officials who participated in the March for Life, Arkansas Right to Life's annual anti-abortion rally.| Arkansas Advocate