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Arkansas Voters to Decide Voter ID, "Tort Reform" Amendments
At least two constitutional amendments will appear on Arkansas' 2018 ballot and it's possible legislators will add one more voter question to the ballot before they go home next month. Legislators in the House and Senate agreed to put on the ballot:
Voters will likely see campaigning for and against these two controversial proposals
in coming months. Television commercials opposing SJR8 aired for days before legislators
made their final vote to refer it.
Arkansas' constitution limits legislators to putting three constitutional amendments
on the ballot. This leaves room for a third proposed amendment. One proposal still
under consideration is HJR1003, which would make changes to the process that determines how constitutional amendments
and acts are placed on the ballot.
The proposal would require that three-fifiths of voters approve a ballot measure for
it to pass. Currently, a measure needs only a majority vote, or 51 percent of the
vote to pass. HJR1003 also would set a deadline for court challenges for ballot issues
and increase the number of counties a campaign would need to qualify an issue for
the ballot.
House members approved adding the measure to the ballot and we expect a vote from
the Senate any day now, as legislators anticipate winding down the session next week.
Find out more about potential ballot issues from citizens in our monthly ballot issue newsletter.
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