Brad Cazort to head Crime Information Center
Brad Cazort has been named director of the Arkansas Crime Information Center.
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Smoking e-mails: Democrats say they show Mark Martin pushed use of bad voter records
A belated production of e-mails by Secretary of State Mark Martin has the Democratic Party calling for response from top Republican officials about evidence that he encouraged county clerks in use of data on voter eligiblity that he knew to be flawed.
Eligible voters removed from rolls
Arkansas Times reporters contacted election officials around the state to see how they had handled flawed felon data from the secretary of state. Responses varied dramatically.
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County responses to flawed felon data suggests eligible voters have been removed from rolls
Earlier this summer, Secretary of State Mark Martin’s office passed along flawed data on Arkansas felons to county clerks. We contacted all 75 counties to see how they had decided to handle it. Their responses varied dramatically. In at least 17 counties, clerks took a "shoot first" approach, which almost certainly means eligible voters have been stripped of their rights.
Thousands of Arkansas voters flagged for removal
After sending faulty felony data to every county in Arkansas, the secretary of state’s office says it’s up to county clerks to fix the mistakes.
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Meet two Arkansans wrongly stripped of their voter registration by the state's flawed data
Both men have since been reinstated by their respective county clerks, but only after spending much time trying to rectify the problem.
Data mix-up from Ark. secretary of state purges unknown number of eligible voters
Those affected include some ex-felons now eligible to vote, as well as some 4,000 people who have never been convicted of a felony but were somehow mistakenly flagged as such.
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