Arkansas Supreme Court orders secretary of state not to count medical marijuana amendment votes

[RandySF]

The Arkansas Supreme Court ruled Monday that votes cast in the November election for a proposed medical marijuana amendment will not be counted because the popular name and ballot title are misleading.

The Arkansas Medical Marijuana Amendment of 2024 will still appear on the ballot as Issue 3 because the signature verification process was still ongoing on Aug. 22, the deadline for when all candidates and sufficient ballot issues had to be certified to the counties for the ballot. However, the Arkansas Supreme Court’s ruling means any votes cast for the measure will not be counted.

Arkansans for Patient Access (APA), backers of the proposed amendment, filed an original action with the state Supreme Court this month against Secretary of State John Thurston after he deemed the group’s petition insufficient. Jim Bell and Protect Arkansas Kids, a ballot question committee that formed in July in opposition to the proposal, joined the case as intervenors siding with Thurston.

Writing for the majority, Associate Justice Shawn Womack said the state’s high court agreed with the intervenors in the case that the measure’s popular name, the Arkansas Medical Marijuana Amendment of 2024, is misleading because it does not inform voters that the amendment, if passed, would affect more than medical marijuana.




https://arkansasadvocate.com/2024/10/21/arkansas-supreme-court-orders-secretary-of-state-not-to-count-medical-marijuana-amendment-votes/

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. Is this Republicans getting the word marijuana off

The ballot so they can help make sure Democratic voters won’t vote?

What’s the point of having voting and democracy and courts anymore
Really

[ArkansasDemocrat1]

2. Bastards

I already voted for it.

[Eliot Rosewater]

5. Republicans hate democracy and they hate you, we ain't seen nothing yet

[Lovie777]

3. I'm pretty sure that's illegal..................

[Eliot Rosewater]

4. But it's the Supreme Court doing it, just like the US

SC Will hand the election to Trump no matter who wins, I’ve been trying to sound a warning for a long time.

I can’t believe people respond to my warning with “but the Supreme Court didn’t give it to him last time“ this isn’t last time folks everything changed and we now see all Republicans bowing to every one of his demands.

[LiberalArkie]

6. That is our Col Sanders. Can't let some upstart growers in the system. It might hurt the legislators bank accounts

[ArkansasDemocrat1]

7. she-Faubus has been a detriment to our state

[LiberalArkie]

8. At least Faubus went to a Socialist college. Commonwealth College

[ArkansasDemocrat1]

9. The time to question how the thing was written was back when this was submitted