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Arkansas Repeal Authorization for Casino in Pope County Amendment (2020)
| Arkansas Repeal Authorization for Casino in Pope County Amendment | |
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| Election date November 3, 2020 | |
| Topic Gambling | |
| Status Not on the ballot | |
| Type Constitutional amendment | Origin Citizens |
The Arkansas Repeal Authorization for Casino in Pope County Amendment was not on the ballot in Arkansas as an initiated constitutional amendment on November 3, 2020.
This measure was designed to repeal the authorization for a casino in Pope County that was authorized by voters through Issue 4 in 2018.[1]
Text of measure
Full text
The full text of the measure is available here.
Sponsors
This initiative was sponsored by Fair Play for Arkansas.[2]
Path to the ballot
The state process
In Arkansas, the number of signatures required to qualify an initiated constitutional amendment for the ballot is equal to 10 percent of the votes cast for governor in the most recent gubernatorial election. Proponents must collect signatures equaling at least half of the designated percentage of gubernatorial votes in at least 50 of the state's counties. Signatures remain valid until the date of the next general election following the certification of ballot language. Signature petitions must be submitted four months prior to the election at which the measure is to appear.
The requirements to get initiated constitutional amendments certified for the 2020 ballot:
- Signatures: 89,151 valid signatures were required.
- Deadline: The deadline to submit signatures was July 3, 2020.
If the secretary of state certifies that enough signatures were submitted in a petition, the initiative is put on the ballot. If a petition fails to meet the signature requirement, but the petition has at least 75 percent of the valid signatures needed, petitioners have 30 days to collect additional signatures or demonstrate that rejected signatures are valid.
Details about this initiative
- The initiative was filed by Fair Play for Arkansas.[2]
- The group announced that it would not submit signatures by the deadline on July 6, 2020.[3]
See also
External links
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Footnotes
- ↑ University of Arkansas Cooperative Extension Service, "Repeal for Authorization for Casino Gaming in Pope County," accessed June 4, 2020
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 University of Arkansas Cooperative Extension Service, "State Ballot Issues in Arkansas," accessed June 4, 2020
- ↑ Arkansas Times, "UPDATES: Petititon deadline day: Redistricting, voting, casinos," accessed July 6, 2020
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