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Voting rights advocates defeat zombie bill that got killed four times but kept coming back
April 27, 20213:14 pm
Pulaski County Election Commissioner Josh Price was among the voting rights activists rallying at the Capitol Tuesday.
UPDATE: They did it! The House rejected a bid to end early voting on the Monday before Election Day.
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Voting rights advocates poured into the Capitol this morning to rally and chant in protest of a zombie voter suppression bill that keeps getting killed but then comes back to life.
Senate Bill 485 shortens the window for early voting, and eliminates voting on the Monday before Election Day altogether. And it’s only one of the attacks on voting rights that lawmakers are pushing through this legislative session.
The selection process for three legislatively referred constitutional amendments is narrowing, with a significant omission so far:
Nothing said so far about the business lobby’s Great White Wale an amendment to make damage suits so unprofitable as to all but hold businesses harmless from lawsuits.
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The Democrat-Gazette reported today where things stand in the deliberations of the House and Senate committees that will narrow choices. Approval of both houses will be required for each of up to three that may be submitted by the legislature.
A House committee has endorsed a proposal that would require a 60 percent vote to approve proposals submitted by the people (
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