Arkansas attorney general rejects first draft of direct democracy initiative
Arkansas’ attorney general has rejected the first version of a proposed constitutional amendment intended to improve the state’s ballot initiative process, but sponsors plan to resubmit. The text of the measure — which would change parts of the initiative process that have frustrated ballot groups, including ballot title review and signature verification, as well as […]
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Citizen-initiated government transparency act proposal submitted to Arkansas Attorney General
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Google-News-Wire
- December 5, 2023
- 2024 election
- arkansas citizens for transparency
- Arkansas Ethics Commission
- Arkansas Government Transparency Act
- Arkansas Government Transparency Amendment
- ballot initiative
- citizen initiated act
- constitutional amendment
- david couch
- direct democracy
- FOIA
- Freedom Of Information Act
- government transparency
- nate bell
- transparency
- Trend – Election 2024
Arkansas government transparency advocates proposed a ballot measure on Monday that would define a public meeting and create a special body to help citizens denied access to public records. Arkansas Citizens for Transparency submitted a proposed ballot title and popular name for the “Arkansas Government Transparency Act,” a companion to a proposed constitutional amendment submitted […]
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Proposed Arkansas ballot measure would make abortion access a constitutional right
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Google-News-Wire
- November 28, 2023
- 2024 election
- abortion
- abortion access
- abortion ban
- ballot measures
- Ballot Title
- constitutional amendment
- direct democracy
- dobbs
- For AR People
- infant mortality
- maternal health
- maternal mortality
- petition
- reproductive health
- reproductive rights
- Roe V. Wade
- tim griffin
- Trend – Abortion
- Trend – Election 2024
The Arkansas Attorney General’s Office will decide Tuesday whether a proposed measure to enshrine abortion as a constitutional right will go on the 2024 statewide ballot. State government entities would not be allowed to “prohibit, penalize, delay or restrict” Arkansans’ access to abortion up to 18 weeks of pregnancy under the Arkansas Reproductive Healthcare Amendment, […]
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Direct democracy proves too scary for red state legislatures; so, they change the rules | #elections | #alabama
David J. Toscano is an attorney and a former member of the Virginia House of Delegates. He is the author of Fighting Political Gridlock: How States Shape Our Nation and Our Lives, University of Virginia Press, 2021, andBellwether: Virginia’s Political Transformation, 2006-2020, Hamilton Books, 2022. Sometimes, the people want change so much that they resort […]
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