LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) Hundreds of paid workers have been gathering signatures around Arkansas as initiative campaigns for casino legalization, raising the minimum wage and stricter term limits approach the deadline to submit petitions and quality for the November ballot.
Three campaigns have combined reported using more than 500 paid workers for their petition drives under an Arkansas law requiring them to file lists of paid canvassers. One of the campaigns, an effort to legalize casinos in four Arkansas counties, has also spent six figures on a statewide television ad urging voters to sign their petitions.
Friday is the deadline to file signatures for proposed ballot measures. Constitutional amendments need at least 84,859 signatures from registered voters to qualify. Canvassers have been hitting festivals, public libraries, gun shows and even going door to door.
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