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Challengers Score Victories in Lawsuit Against Arkansas’ Restrictions on Citizen Ballot Initiatives

The judge threw out a handful of state laws that put extra restrictions on citizen efforts to gather signatures for ballot initiatives, agreeing with challengers that they violated the constitutional free speech rights of voters.