Arkansas’s Costly Crusade Against Voter Registration
Arkansas has one of the lowest voter registration and voter turnout rates in the nation. In the 2026 March primaries, just 24% of registered voters cast a ballot. Now consider…
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Good morning everyone! We're in Joint Budget Committee today, where we expect a pretty brief meeting. Next up is the Senate floor session, and this afternoon we'll have a House floor session.
Afternoon! (Again)
We're expecting the first Joint Budget Committee meeting of the 2026 fiscal session to gavel in soon. Only one thing on the agenda, so hopefully short and sweet!
HB1002 deals with district judge reimbursements
https://arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FAssembly%2FMeeting+Attachments%2F005%2F27829%2FHB1002.pdf
While we're covering the start of fiscal session, @OnARWatch1 is sitting in on a State Board of Election Commissioners meeting discussing the recent 8th Circuit ruling allowing the use of digital signatures for voter registration.
Lots happening today but OAW is at the State Board of Election Commission meeting now to hear what the Board plans to do re: unfavorable 8th circuit wet signature ruling #arpx
Good day, Arkansas! We're back for coverage of the Arkansas Legislature's fiscal session, 2026 edition.
You can read our preview of what we expect to come up here:
Arkansas’s state motto is
"The People Rule"
But for too long, many of our state politicians have been operating in the shadows, prioritizing interests of the wealthy and powerful over interests of the people. They put partisanship and deep-pocket campaign donors ahead of us, the voters.
This is our state. We are fighting back.
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