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Arkansas Township Assemblies Initiative (2022)
| Arkansas Township Assemblies Initiative | |
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| Election date November 8, 2022 | |
| Topic County and municipal governance | |
| Status Not on the ballot | |
| Type Constitutional amendment | Origin Citizens |
The Arkansas Township Assemblies Initiative was not on the ballot in Arkansas as an initiated constitutional amendment on November 8, 2022.
This measure would have created a local form of government called a township assembly.[1]
Text of measure
Popular name
The popular name for this initiative was as follows:[1]
| “ | The Arkansas Township Amendment of 2022[2] | ” |
Full text
The full text of the measure is available here.
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 2022 ballot:
- Signatures: 89,151 valid signatures
- Deadline: July 8, 2022—four months prior to the election
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
- Academy of Democracy filed the initiative.[1]
*Proponents did not publish the initiative in a statewide newspaper (a prerequisite to submitting signatures) before the deadline on June 8, 2022, therefore the initiative did not qualify for the ballot.[3][4][5]
See also
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 University of Arkansas, "Arkansas Ballot Issues Recap: Where We're At with 2022 Ballot Issues," accessed October 4, 2021
- ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
- ↑ Arkansas.gov, "2022 Initiative and Referendum Handbook," accessed June 17, 2022
- ↑ Magnolia Reporter, "Deadline looms over Arkansas ballot issue groups," accessed June 17, 2022
- ↑ Ballotpedia Staff, Communication with David Couch, June 17, 2022]
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