The Arkansas Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that a pro-abort constitutional amendment will not be on the ballot in November because the organizers decided following the law was just too much trouble. The proposed amendment would declare open season on babies up to 18 weeks for any purpose and until birth for a laundry list of reasons that are sufficiently vague as to make abortion unrestricted.
The amendment’s sponsor, an AstroTurfed, single-issue pro-abort group called Arkansans for Limited Government, violated state law by using unauthorized paid canvassers to collect signatures. On July 5, the organization turned in what they purported to be over 101,000 signatures collected in 53 counties, more than meeting the statutory requirement of 90,704 representing 50 counties to put the amendment on the ballot.
When Arkansas Secretary of State John Thurston reviewed the petitions, he determined that Arkansans for Limited Government had not followed the law by using paid canvassers and ignoring the requirement to provide them with training and certify that training. As a result, he rejected the proposed amendment.
The group that submitted the petitions Friday did not submit an affidavit identifying paid canvassers by name, as required by state law, Thurston wrote in a Wednesday letter to Lauren Cowles, executive director of Arkansans for Limited Government, the ballot question committee supporting the proposed constitutional amendment. […]
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