Supporters of a proposal to strengthen direct democracy asked the Arkansas Supreme Court Wednesday to order the secretary of state to verify signatures submitted in favor of putting the measure on the November ballot. The lawsuit asks the court to reverse Secretary of State Cole Jester’s rejection of the petitions for the proposed constitutional amendment, […]

All signatures submitted in favor of putting on the November ballot a proposal to strengthen Arkansas’ initiative and referendum process were tossed because none of them were countable under state law, the secretary of state’s office announced Thursday. Secretary of State Cole Jester wrote in a letter to the proposed constitutional amendment’s sponsors that 19,924 […]