Many factors contribute to low voter turnout in Arkansas, and it creates a negative cycle and present a danger to democracy in the state.

According to the Arkansas secretary of state's office, there were 1,811,667 eligible registered voters in the state as of Thursday. On Nov. 8, 2022, the date of that year's general election, there were 1,799,136 eligible registered voters.

Crittenden County election officials on Friday appealed to the Arkansas Supreme Court a circuit court order that required staffing an early voting location in West Memphis. The county Board of Election Commissioners voted 2-1 Thursday to appeal Circuit Court Judge Chris Thyer’s Monday ruling that they should conduct early voting at one of three contested

Arkansans seeking to unseat the state’s four Republican incumbents in the U.S. House of Representatives are implementing grassroots tactics instead of trying to keep pace with the fundraising efforts of their opponents who have amassed millions of campaign dollars.

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. -- An effort to expand Arkansas' medical marijuana program fell short of the required signatures and won't qualify for the November ballot, Secretary of State John Thurston said Monday. Arkansans for Patient Access, the group behind the measure, said it planned to take legal action to appeal Thurston's decision.

The group behind a proposed medical marijuana ballot measure asked the Arkansas Supreme Court Tuesday to vacate the secretary of state’s rejection of its proposal, require the counting of submitted signatures and certify the measure for November’s election.

The State Board of Election Commissioners on Wednesday voted to sanction election officials in one Arkansas county where several hand-counted ballot mistakes occurred during the primary election. Commissioners did not explicitly state which county’s board of election commissioners would receive the sanctions;

Half of the 35 members of the Arkansas Senate are up for election this November, seven of them in contested races. The Senate is the upper branch of the state’s bicameral legislature, known formally as the General Assembly.

Baker and Wood qualified for the nonpartisan judicial runoff election for the chief justice post by garnering more votes than Supreme Court Justice Barbara Webb and attorney Jay Martin in the March 5 election, though none of the candidates won a majority of the votes in the judicial general election.

Seven of the 54 contested races for seats in the Arkansas House of Representatives this November are open, meaning no incumbent is running. All 100 seats in the Arkansas Legislature’s lower chamber are up for election every two years.

MARION -- The Crittenden County Board of Election Commissioners voted Thursday to appeal to the Arkansas Supreme Court a circuit judge's order to conduct early voting at a church in West Memphis for the general election in November.

In question are 18,000 signatures collected during what's called a "cure period" that gives groups time for additional signatures.