(AP) – A state senator wants to ask Arkansas voters next year
to reinstate a voter ID law that was struck down as unconstitutional.
Republican Sen. Bryan King on Wednesday filed a resolution that would place a
proposed constitutional amendment requiring the Legislature to reinstate the law
on the 2018 ballot. King was the sponsor of a 2013 voter ID law that was struck
down by the state Supreme Court the following year.
King introduced the measure the day after the House approved legislation
reinstating the voter ID requirement. The proposal, which is pending before a
Senate committee, is aimed at addressing concerns some justices had raised in
2013 that the previous law wasn't approved with enough votes.
to reinstate a voter ID law that was struck down as unconstitutional.
Republican Sen. Bryan King on Wednesday filed a resolution that would place a
proposed constitutional amendment requiring the Legislature to reinstate the law
on the 2018 ballot. King was the sponsor of a 2013 voter ID law that was struck
down by the state Supreme Court the following year.
King introduced the measure the day after the House approved legislation
reinstating the voter ID requirement. The proposal, which is pending before a
Senate committee, is aimed at addressing concerns some justices had raised in
2013 that the previous law wasn't approved with enough votes.
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