Natural State News

Rutledge: 'I will fight to ensure that Arkansans' fundamental right to vote is protected'

By W.J. Kennedy | Mar 25, 2022

Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge has asked Pulaski County Judge Wendell Griffen to allow four election reform laws that he shot down in a ruling earlier this week to remain in effect until the Supreme Court rules on the appeal.

Elections analyst: Impact of Arkansas redistricting case ruling yet to be determined

By W.J. Kennedy | Mar 1, 2022

Elections analyst Jason Snead, executive director of the Honest Elections Project, said that it’s too early to say what the impact of a federal judge’s dismissal of an Arkansas redistricting case on the 1965 Voting Rights Act (VRA) will be.

Arkansas absentee ballot security measure could be 'outlawed' under federal election legislation

By W.J. Kennedy | May 20, 2021

Election security measures in Arkansas and other states that verify voters are who they say they are would be “outlawed” under the H.R.1 legislation that Democrats are pushing in Congress, says former Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli.

Thurston: For the People Act is 'one of the biggest government overreaches in the history of our country'

By W.J. Kennedy | Apr 15, 2021

Arkansas will be stripped of its constitutionally derived authority to administer elections under the For the People Act of 2021, say critics of the measure.