were among those rejected<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\nRutledge finally allowed the DAF ballot question to proceed after the group petitioned the Arkansas Supreme Court to review the merits of the AG’s “unnecessarily burdensome standard.” The court didn’t accept the case, but it prompted Rutledge to concede.<\/p>\n
“In light of the Arkansas Supreme Court’s failure to put forth clear standards, I am certifying to ensure Arkansans are given an opportunity to put these measures on the ballot,” Rutledge declared. Along with the DAF question, the AG certified referendums that seek to impose term limits on state politicians and increase the minimum wage.<\/p>\n
Arkansas is a socially conservative state and part of the Bible Belt.<\/p>\n
In 2004, 75 percent of voters supported a constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage. The state is also one of just a handful that have laws on their books that ban abortion in the case that Roe v. Wade is overturned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Arkansas casino group that wants voters to decide this November about legalizing commercial gambling is short on signatures, but has received an extension from the state. According to Secretary of State Mark Martin, Driving Arkansas Forward (DAF), a nonprofit organization pushing to authorize casinos in an effort to generate new forms of tax revenue […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":84698,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,18,61,13592],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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