Breaking: Judge strikes down entire Arkansas voter ID law

[Cannikin]

Just coming across Twitter now.

"BREAKING: Circuit Court judge declares Act 595, Voter ID law, "void and unenforcable". More to come"


No other details yet. Big news for this Tea Party state.

[bvar22]

1. Arkansas is a big Tea Party State?

News to me, and I live here.
We currently have a Democratic Governor, Mike Beebe,
and lost the majorities in our State House to Republicans for the first time in 140 years last election.

Due to our Democratic Governor,
Arkansas has Opted IN for the Medicaid expansion.

There are certainly many Conservatives in Arkansas,
and there are people who affiliate themselves with the Tea Party,
but that is true for every other state.

I personally don't believe it would take much to flip Arkansas from Red to Blue for the 2016 Presidential election,
but the Democratic party would have to spend some money here.

[Art_from_Ark]

2. The last time Arkansas voted for a Democratic presidential candidate

who wasn't a Southern governor was back in 1964 (I'm counting George Wallace as a Democratic candidate even though he ran as an independent). But who knows, if Hillary is the nominee the state might go for her out of a sense of nostalgia.

[malaise]

3. Rev Al is discussing this now

Great news!

[pinboy3niner]

4. AP: Arkansas judge voids state voter ID law

By ANDREW DeMILLO Associated Press3:20 p.m.April 24, 2014

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — An Arkansas judge struck down the state's new voter ID law on Thursday, saying it violates the state constitution by adding a requirement that voters must meet before casting a ballot.

Pulaski County Circuit Judge Tim Fox voided the measure in a lawsuit over the way absentee ballots are handled under the law. A separate lawsuit had been filed last week directly challenging the law, which requires voters to show photo identification before casting a ballot.

The law "is declared void and unenforceable," Fox wrote in the ruling.

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A spokesman for Attorney General Dustin McDaniel, a Democrat, says the state Board of Election Commissioners has asked McDaniel's office to appeal Thursday's ruling, and it will do so.

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http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2014/apr/24/arkansas-judge-voids-state-voter-id-law/