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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – A lawsuit filed in the Arkansas Supreme Court on Thursday alleges fraud and other violations, as well as a hidden agenda, surrounding a recently approved ballot proposal.
The Arkansas Canvassing Compliance Committee (ACCC) claims that Local Voters in Charge (LVIC), the group sponsoring a ballot initiative to remove Pope County from the list of places authorized to have a casino, broke Arkansas election laws by the way the group gathered signatures it submitted to the state.
The lawsuit also claims that the ballot name and ballot title of the proposed measure break the law.
In the suit, ACCC claims LVIC hired a third-party company, PCI Consultants, to gather signatures for the petition. The suit accuses that PCI illegally paid canvassers using per-signature fees.
It also claims canvassers were told to misrepresent the petition people were being asked to sign by telling those people that they were approving a casino for Pope County, the opposite of the ballot initiative’s intent.
In addition, the suit states PCI d...
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