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1 State of Arkansas A Bill
2 95th General Assembly
3 Regular Session, 2025 HOUSE BILL 1878
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5 By: Representative McGruder
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8 For An Act To Be Entitled
9 AN ACT TO ENSURE EARLY VOTING ACCESS FOR ARKANSANS
10 RESIDING IN POPULATION CENTERS; TO REQUIRE A COUNTY
11 BOARD OF ELECTION COMMISSIONERS TO CONDUCT EARLY
12 VOTING IN A CITY IN CERTAIN INSTANCES; AND FOR OTHER
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17 TO ENSURE EARLY VOTING ACCESS FOR
18 ARKANSANS RESIDING IN POPULATION
19 CENTERS; AND TO REQUIRE A COUNTY BOARD
20 OF ELECTION COMMISSIONERS TO CONDUCT
21 EARLY VOTING IN A CITY IN CERTAIN
22 INSTANCES.
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24 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ARKANSAS:
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26 SECTION 1. Arkansas Code � 7-5-418(b)(1)(A), concerning early voting,
27 is amended to read as follows:
28 (b)(1)(A)(i) The county board of election commissioners shall hold
29 early voting for each preferential primary election and each general election
30 at a polling site in each city:
31 (a) Having a population of more than fifteen
32 thousand (15,000) people in the most recent federal decennial census; and
33 (b) Where the county clerk is not conducting
34 early voting.
35 (ii) The county board of election commissioners may
36 decide to hold early voting at additional polling sites outside the offices
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