According to the Arkansas secretary of state's office, there were 1,811,667 eligible registered voters in the state as of Thursday. On Nov. 8, 2022, the date of that year's general election, there were 1,799,136 eligible registered voters.
Marion, located just to the north of West Memphis, is in Arkansas House District 35 and is currently held by Democratic Rep. Milton Nicks, Jr. Democratic candidate Jessie McGruder and Republican candidate Robert Thorne Jr. are competing to succeed Nicks.
Arkansans seeking to unseat the state’s four Republican incumbents in the U.S. House of Representatives are implementing grassroots tactics instead of trying to keep pace with the fundraising efforts of their opponents who have amassed millions of campaign dollars.
Crittenden County election officials on Friday appealed to the Arkansas Supreme Court a circuit court order that required staffing an early voting location in West Memphis. The county Board of Election Commissioners voted 2-1 Thursday to appeal Circuit Court Judge Chris Thyer’s Monday ruling that they should conduct early voting at one of three contested
Many factors contribute to low voter turnout in Arkansas, and it creates a negative cycle and present a danger to democracy in the state.
The State Board of Election Commissioners on Wednesday voted to sanction election officials in one Arkansas county where several hand-counted ballot mistakes occurred during the primary election. Commissioners did not explicitly state which county’s board of election commissioners would receive the sanctions;
Half of the 35 members of the Arkansas Senate are up for election this November, seven of them in contested races. The Senate is the upper branch of the state’s bicameral legislature, known formally as the General Assembly.
Seven of the 54 contested races for seats in the Arkansas House of Representatives this November are open, meaning no incumbent is running. All 100 seats in the Arkansas Legislature’s lower chamber are up for election every two years.
MARION -- The Crittenden County Board of Election Commissioners voted Thursday to appeal to the Arkansas Supreme Court a circuit judge's order to conduct early voting at a church in West Memphis for the general election in November.
The ballot committee behind the Arkansas Marijuana Amendment of 2024 is suing Secretary of State John Thurston over signature counting discrepancies.
A new poll taken mid-August found that the Latino group showed a renewed interest in voting overall after the top of the Democratic ticket changed.