Arkansas Senator Kim Hammer authored several new bills this year restricting ballot initiatives. Now, he’s running for secretary of state — where he’d oversee the very rules he created, with new sweeping powers over citizen-led measures.

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“It Just Feels Like Death”: Barrage of New Rules Target Arkansas Ballot Initiatives - Bolts

It’s a familiar sight in Arkansas: Canvassers stop passersby in front of a local grocery store or town library and ask them if they’d be willin...

Colorado became the first state to require polling places in all county jails, despite officials insisting incarcerated people already had ballot access. The result? Turnout in jails surged statewide.

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Jail Voting Soars in Colorado After State Mandates Polling Places in County Lockups - Bolts

Local officials had claimed they were already giving detained people ballot access, but Colorado's first-in-the-nation mandate forced their ha...