Below assault at present on the Arkansas Capitol: Your voting rights

Arkansas lawmakers have already ambushed public education, transgender youth and reproductive health this week, and it’s solely Wednesday!

Now, legislators are turning their consideration to your voting rights. Particularly, lots of them appear eager on making voting as disagreeable and inconvenient as potential, doubtless in hopes that you simply simply received’t do it.

I don’t have the time/bandwidth to learn by means of every of those payments. However my goodness! It seems to be like somebody is making an attempt to chip away at our voting rights at present. https://t.co/HGAVtV6ipg /1 pic.twitter.com/r15ytXxVMj

— Jenny (@bluetruedream21) March 8, 2023

Prohibiting ballot drop boxes, barring write-in candidates for college board races and creating a brand new and intimidating “election integrity unit” to additional police the polls are all on the day’s agenda.

The Home Committee on State Businesses and Governmental Affairs will meet at 10 a.m. Additionally on the agenda, the invoice to construct a monument to aborted fetuses on the Capitol lawn.

However what is that this? A brilliant spot? House Bill 1537 would carry us into the twenty first Century by permitting on-line voter registration in Arkansas.

Wednesday’s assembly comes on the heels of an outrageous energy seize on the Capitol that attempts to rob Arkansas citizens of constitutionally granted rights to petition. Arkansas voters nixed limitations on their proper to place initiatives on the poll twice lately, so lawmakers are attempting this new path to shutting them up. No method it’s authorized. However Arkansas lawmakers appear greater than prepared to waste money and time on a taxpayer-funded lawsuits to make it official.

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