Posted on 05/18/2024 6:33:53 AM PDT by CFW
Surprising no one, the staunchly conservative Arkansas Supreme Court unanimously upheld four 2021 state laws that make voting in Arkansas less pleasant, less convenient and less likely to count.
In an opinion issued Thursday, the seven-member court overturned former Pulaski County Circuit Judge Wendell Griffen’s 2022 ruling that the four laws at issue hindered the fundamental right to vote and were therefore unconstitutional.
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The 2021 laws the state Supreme Court upheld Thursday are:
Act 973, which shortens the window to turn in absentee ballots, moving the deadline from the Monday before Election Day to the Friday before.
Act 736, requiring county clerks to compare signatures on absentee ballot applications and voter registrations to make sure they match.
Act 249, which makes the state’s voter ID law more strict. Previously, voters without identification could still cast a valid ballot as long as they signed an affidavit. Under Act 249, anyone who goes to the polls and votes without the required ID will have to go to the county board of election commissioners or the county clerk by noon of the Monday following the election with photo ID in hand, or their vote will not count.
Act 728, which blocks anyone at a polling site who’s not there for voting purposes from coming within 100 feet of the door to the site. This law creates distance between voters and those nice people who used to hand out water and snacks when the lines got long.
(Excerpt) Read more at arktimes.com ...
I see it as Arkansas Supreme Court greenlights four laws that make cheating at voting harder.
Meanwhile, in virtually every blue state,Democrats are registering illegal aliens to vote, preparing to print fake ballots and working on the vote tallying software usec around the country . . .
“Act 736, requiring county clerks to compare signatures on absentee ballot applications and voter registrations to make sure they match.”
Signature can vary. I think requiring absentee ballot applications to be notarized would be better. That should be done at any county office free of charge.
Yep , I remember the liberal outrage a while back that the allegedly Jim Crow inspired voter law in Georgia, prevented people from having a water bottle in the voting line. Then that meant, by extension , conservatives want people to die of thirst.
Speaking of Georgia , I see that Major League Baseball has awarded an All-Star Game to Atlanta , after having revoked the All-Star Game in Atlanta in a previous year , to protest that allegedly Jim Crow inspired voter law.
The allegedly Jim Crow inspired voter law is still on the books in Georgia , but now baseball has changed their minds.
I’ve searched the media but cannot find any explanation as to why baseball change their minds about the Georgia voter law.
Maybe certain things are just supposed to go down the memory hole.
Georgia laws are similar except the except the signature identification on absentee ballot, that is desperately needed. After the supposed “ Jim Crow 2.0 as Biden called it we had record turn out
Oh my gosh! How will we continue to exist? You mean we’re going to have to prove we have a legal right to vote??? Oh, the humanity!
No matter how hard they tried, they just couldn't think of anything bad about this law. So this was what they wrote. Of course, if the line is actually long enough to require snacks and water, it will be much longer than 100 feet.
The Author and Editors don’t sound like they are from Arkansas.
Fixed it.
-PJ
<>In Oklahoma, I needed to have my absentee ballot notarized.<>
That’s a terrific law.
It should be universal.
“Those nice people who used to hand out water and snacks when the lines got long”.
Es un broma? I’ve never herd of anyone so ill-mannered/piggish they couldn’t go without a snack long enough to be in line to vote-or who couldn’t bring their own bottle of water. This all sounds like a great deterrent to cheating to me...
oops-”heard”
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