Arkansas Secretary of State rejects abortion amendment ballot petitions

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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – Arkansas Secretary of State John Thurston said Wednesday that his office is rejecting the petitions submitted by a group looking to add an abortion rights amendment to the state constitution.

Officials with the secretary of state’s office said there was a technicality regarding canvassers that led to the submissions being disqualified.

I’m told the reason is they didn’t provide identification for canvassers that’s required. If SOS takes out the signatures that don’t have the identifications, they don’t have enough signatures. Even if they did, the lack of that info would make them not qualify. @KARK4News…

— Samantha Boyd (@samanthaboyd98) July 10, 2024

On Friday, the group Arkansans for Limited Government announced that they had secured more than 100,000 petition signatures from 54 counties for the ballot initiative trying to get the amendment before voters in November.

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