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Poll: Voters favor open primaries and nonpartisan legislative districting commission

Findings from a poll commissioned by the League of Women Voters.
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UPDATES: Petition deadline day: Redistricting, voting, casinos

Today's the deadline for groups trying to reach the ballot by petition on measures covering redistricting, voting and casinos.
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Add another petition drive to weekend canvassing UPDATE

Add open primaries to constitutional amendment petitions being circulated this weekend.

Groups backing ballot measures for casinos and non-partisan redisricting make final push for signatures

Time is running out for pettion drives for expanded casino gambling and to change the legislative districting process. Opponents of the casino measure report an influx of canvassers from out of state.
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Lawsuit filed to remove two constitutional amendments from November ballot

The suit aims to kill legislative amendments to make it harder to put proposals on the ballot by petition and to eliminate lifetime legislative term limits.

8th Circuit grants stay in ballot petition case

The 8th Circuit has granted an administrative stay of a federal court ruling easing restrictions on gathering signatures for constitutional amemdments.
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Here come the petitions: Voting, casinos, anti-casinos

There's a surge of interest in petition drives to put constitutional amendments on the November ballot thinks to a federal court ruling last week.

Arkansas: Where the people don't rule

The people rule is the state motto. The Farm Bureau and Arkansas State Chamber of Commerce have a different idea.
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A Democrat's attack on democracy

Democrats can't pass much in the Republican-majority legislature and let's hope that continues with Sen Keith Ingram's renewed effort to cripple the ability to put popularly initiated measures on the ballot. In that many corporate interests share Ingram's anti-democratic view of the popular initiative, you never know.

Here comes the business lobby to preserve the end of your right to jury trial

The Arkansas State Chamber of Commerce — or more precisely its director Randy Zook as head of the chamber puppet pro-Issue One committee — filed a motion today to intervene in the lawsuit that says the amendment should be removed from the ballot for unconstitutionally offering up four separate amendments rather than a single issue and upending the balance of power of Arkansas government.
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Petition day arrives for ballot measures on casinos, minimum wage and term limits

Today's the deadline to submit petitions to qualify initiated acts and constitutional amendments for the ballot. On tap: casinos, minimum wage, term limits.

Medical pot or not? A yes and a no

Medical marijuana news: Chris Christie says yes to marijuana for PTSD and an anti-legalization pot warrior schedules a visit to Arkansas.
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