Credit Arkansas House The Arkansas House has passed a bill that makes a variety of changes to the state’s absentee voting process. Members voted 74-22 Thursday, largly on bipartisan lines, in favor of House Bill 1715. It now goes to the Senate. Some changes the bill includes are: denying absentee ballots to voters if signatures don’t match between their application and voter registration application, and not allowing county clerks or other designated officials to give to voters "unsolicited absentee ballot applications." Clerks and other election officials are still able to display a post absentee ballot application form on the internet.