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Up Next. Campaigns. Arkansas Amendments to Give Voters More Control over Their Elections Advance to 2020 Ballot. August 21, 2020. Over 150,000 Arkansas voters signed a petition to put a nonpartisan top four primaries with ranked choice voting in the…

Up Next. Campaigns. Arkansas vs Georgia: Who Wants the Worst Ballot Access Laws? February 18, 2019. America's two major political parties may dominate nearly every elected office in the country, but they remain eager to further restrict any competition in…

is the last chance Arkansas, Nevada, North Dakota and Oregon have to make the switch to an independent redistricting commission before maps are redrawn for the new decade. But the Covid-19 pandemic has made gathering signatures to qualify for the ballot…

President John Opdycke about the combined efforts to get nonpartisan primary reform passed with an alternative voting method in Alaska, Arkansas, North Dakota, St. Louis, and the campaign to bring nonpartisan primaries to one of the nation's biggest…

Primaries Arkansas. has filed a lawsuit in federal circuit court in response to the Arkansas Supreme Court’s decision to remove. an amendment. from the ballot that would have implemented a nonpartisan, top-four primary with ranked choice voting in the general…

Washington, D.C. have both no-excuse absentee voting (or run predominately vote-by-mail elections) and in-person early voting for federal races. Eight states offer early in-person voting, but require an excuse to vote by mail: Arkansas, Kentucky, Louisiana…

solution: the ranked-choice voting ballot, as cast by thousands of voters last year in primaries in Alabama, Arkansas and South Carolina and in general elections in Mississippi and, yes, Louisiana. Louisiana pioneered the process for military voters to…

primary reform is on the ballot, but in states like Alaska, North Dakota, and Arkansas, voters have an opportunity to completely transform the electoral process. (Update 8/26/20: The North Dakota Supreme Court has. removed the proposed reform amendment. from…

bright red now on the Electoral College map: Wyoming (83 percent). Arkansas (83 percent). New Hampshire (82 percent). Maine (82 percent). Alabama (81 percent). Massachusetts (80 percent). West Virginia (80 percent). Utah (78 percent). Mississippi (78 percent…

the year its requirement that absentee ballot envelopes be notarized or signed by two witnesses — and contain a photocopy of some proof of identification. (Arkansas is the only other state that wants to see the copy of a photo ID.). It also asks that the…