Arkansas Supreme Court Denies Bid to Get Abortion Measure on the Ballot

some_guy , 3 hours ago

We can’t let the people decide for themselves! They’re little more than kept dogs.

NotMyOldRedditName , 3 hours ago

This sucks, but it sounds like they might have fucked up for real?

Meanwhile, there’s another article about how a group is trying to prevent a ballot measure from appearing during Alaska’s election to remove ranked choice voting. In this case, it was approved to be added even though they fucked up the paperwork, and now it’s going to their supreme court to prevent it.

Bets on what happens there?

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circuscritic , 15 minutes ago (edited 9 minutes ago)

I was expecting to read the article and find some seventh level of hell legal trickery bullshit, but it does sound like the organizers fucked up.

John Thurston, the secretary of state, rejected the petition outright, saying that organizers had failed to correctly submit a sworn statement confirming that paid canvassers had been instructed on how to collect signatures.

However, while I may be an expert in bird law, with a focus on dick towel related torts, I don’t know shit about Arkansas state law or their regulations for proposing ballot measures.

Maybe someone who is can tell me why this isn’t the fault of the organizers, or if some other shenanigans are at play?

Any chance that they submitted the document, but didn’t complete some arcane ritual like having it delivered by a female virgin courrier? Or not including a list of the mother’s maiden name for every canvasser?

Blu , 1 minute ago

The other shenanigans was that the secretary of state allowed other petitioners with the same issues to proceed on the ballot, namely marijuana and gambling referendums. The organizers should have been on their best behavior because the state was always going to selectively enforce the rules here.