Arkansans for Limited Government filed the lawsuit on July 16 alleging that the rejection was "unlawful" and prevents Arkansans from "exercising their right to adopt or reject" the amendment.”
They played the same video they had up yesterday which is still pretty terrible. But there is more information on the website here.
www.thv11.com/…
They did provide a link to the lawsuit on SCRIBD.
www.scribd.com/…
Like most lawsuits the text is pretty dense in technicalese. I am asking for anyone with experience interpreting this kind of language to give their impressions in the comments. I will try to spend some time with it this afternoon and report to the best of my understanding.
Arkansans for Limited Government sues Secretary of State Thurston over abortion amendment petition rejection
KARK is also reporting on this.
“Arkansans for Limited Government (AFLG) filed suit Tuesday asking the Arkansas Supreme Court to override Secretary of State John Thurston’s decision to reject the signatures submitted by the group in an effort to place the issue before voters on the November 2024 ballot.”
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“The suit asks the court to overturn Thurston’s decision, citing Arkansas law that AFLG maintains shows it followed state law in its submission. It is requesting an expedited hearing so its ballot question will be before voters on the November ballot.”
Here’s the link to the full story.
www.kark.com/…
Not just Arkansas and Montana
The Republicans have been doing this type of voter nullification all over the country. While reading Digby yesterday I found a paragraph full of links.
Here you go.
The GOP is Undoing Democracy to Ban Abortion
jessica.substack.com/…
Abortion, Every Day (11.2.23)
jessica.substack.com/…
Missouri's AG put a $21 million ransom on abortion
jessica.substack.com/…
The above links are at the Abortion, Every Day website. They’ve been reporting on this a lot longer than I have. Here they are again discussing the situation in Montana.
"The Will of the People," Except on Abortion
jessica.substack.com/…
Here’s the post on Digby’s blog that led me to the Abortion, Every Day website. There’s a lot of good information here too.
Vance In Gilead
digbysblog.net/…
Action
Join the email list at arliberty.org. This will keep you abreast of the latest news from AFLG.
And donate
Donation page here, arliberty.org/… Merch page here, shop.arliberty.org
Donate to the Montana effort.
mtreprorights.org
Rec this diary for exposure. I’m following this story daily and I can’t wait to report that the Secretary Of States office folds and they are counting the signatures.
If you live in Arkansas and you haven’t registered to vote please do that now. If you don’t know how to register go to the AFLG website at arliberty.org. They will help you get registered to vote. We will need you to vote on the amendment after the signatures are counted and it gets on the ballot. (Speaking optimistically)
Here’s a good link for voter registration nationwide. If you aren’t registered register now. If you think you’re registered, check. Don’t wait until election day to find out you’ve been purged.
www.vote.org
Please post your news on this national issue in the comments.
Please add more action links and strategies in the comments.
There’s a reason why Republicans are doing this. If the amendments are put on the ballot they will pass. Republicans know this but they don’t care about voter’s rights any more than they care about abortion rights.
Count the signatures!
Count the signatures!
Thanks
