Barrage of New Rules Target Arkansas Ballot Initiatives

It’s a familiar sight in Arkansas: Canvassers stop passersby in front of a local grocery store or town library and ask them if they’d be willing to sign a petition to put an initiative on the ballot. In 2024, though, citizen efforts to expand medical marijuana, enable abortion access, and protect education funding all fumbled when GOP officials declared that organizers had messed up some regulatory minutiae. They said the abortion rights organizers erred in how they submitted certain documents, failing to bundle them together with their final petition, and that the medical marijuana organizers had the wrong person sign some of their paperwork. In each case, officials disqualified thousands of signatures and kicked the measures off the ballot. Daniel Nichanian, Bolts.

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