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Judge Griffen strikes down four new Arkansas voting laws as unconstitutional arktimes.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from arktimes.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Adam KlasfeldMay 20th, 2021, 10:54 am
In 2020, Arkansas ranked as the U.S. state with the second-lowest voter turnout. Only Oklahoma did worse in terms of democratic participation, and so the Natural State’s Republican-controlled legislature snapped into action. They adopted a suite of four bills that further restrict access to the ballot.
Challenging this quartet of bills, two civil rights groups the League of Women Voters of Arkansas and Arkansas United claim that the measures will further exacerbate the state’s “long and dismal tradition of abysmally low voter turnout.”
The filing of the lawsuit was announced on Wednesday evening by Democracy Docket, an advocacy group associated with the Democratic Party’s lawyer
Arkansas Has the Second Lowest Voter Turnout in the United States Rights Groups Just Sued Over Bills That Further Restrict the Ballot msn.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from msn.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.