Election Integrity Bills: SUPPORT

BACKGROUND:

Senator Alan Clark has filed a number of election integrity bills that deserve your support. These will be heard THIS WEEK.

SB429: prevents candidates and third-parties from having access to up to the minute voting data during an election, which is often used for nefarious purposes

SB430: allows 10 voters to request a recount, which will be performed by hand

SB431: limits handling of absentee ballots and makes ballot harvesting a felony

SB435: allows any voter to request a paper ballot

ACTION:

Contact your (1) state senator; (2) your state representative; and (3) any Republican members of both chambers you’re willing to contact. Ask them to stand tall for election integrity by SUPPORTING SB429, SB430, SB431, and SB435.

SB71: END STATE-SPONSORED DISCRIMINATION

BACKGROUND:

Senate Bill 71 would end state sponsored discrimination and aligns perfectly with the ‘Needs Based’ & ‘Merit Based’ principles. Before the spring recess, RINO State Rep. Jeff Wardlaw attempted to kill this conservative bill in the House State Agencies committee. In the video below, watch the coach give the steal sign to another member! Fortunately, two days later Rep Gonzales made the motion to move SB71 back to the deferred list with the support to the Committee.

MORE ON SB71:

ACTION:

Tell the members of the House State Agencies committee to end government-sanctioned discrimination – PASS SB71!

AAC says they have NO position on SB250, yet they do!

TELL YOUR LEGISLATORS, ESPECIALLY REP. WAYNE LONG AND SEN. KIM HAMMER, TO PASS A “CLEANUP” BILL THAT DOES NOT PENALIZE COUNTIES THAT MIGHT CHOOSE PAPER BALLOTS.

BACKGROUND:

The Association of Arkansas Counties takes one percent of each county’s income, essentially as dues, to fund their operations.  AAC is, for lack of a better term, a taxpayer-funded lobbyist for county elected officials.  They are behind SB250, and Lindsey Bailey French (one of their lawyers) made that clear in an email we obtained dated February 14th.  She lied in testimony before the Senate committee on February 27th, when she said AAC has no position on SB250 (they clearly supported – and pushed – it). 

See the February 14th email here: https://8468304.fs1.hubspotusercontent-na1.net/hubfs/8468304/LBF%20214%20email.jpeg

And the AAC public testimony here, which contradicts the private email: https://8468304.fs1.hubspotusercontent-na1.net/hubfs/8468304/AAS%20(LBF)%20no%20position.mov

ACTION:

Let your legislators know that they were hoodwinked on SB250. Insist that they immediately pass a clean-up bill, which both (a) removes the penalty from counties choosing paper ballots and (b) does not require electronic counting.

Rep. Wayne Long: 501-290-0091; wayne.long@arkansashouse.org

Sen. Kim Hammer: 501-840-3841; kim.hammer@senate.ar.gov

Senate committee: https://staging.reopenarkansas.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/2023-Senate-state-agencies-PDF.pdf

House committee: https://staging.reopenarkansas.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/2023-House-state-agencies.pdf

Did the ivermectin ban cost lives?

It appears that we live in a reality where doctors are censored and early treatments such as ivermectin are banned, apparently to ensure public confidence in the government’s vaccine rollout is not undermined.

AHPRA and National Boards threatened doctors with regulatory action on March 9, 2021 if they made any statements that ‘undermined public confidence in the vaccination rollout’. The TGA also banned ivermectin’s use for the prevention or treatment of Covid in September 2021 because, according to the TGA, if people had access to it they may not get vaccinated. Are we seeing a trend?

https://www.spectator.com.au/2023/03/did-the-ivermectin-ban-cost-lives/

HB1610 must be stopped

UPDATE: The bill failed in the House committee on Wednesday. It could be brought up again, though.

We love Representative Mary Bentley; she has been a great state rep and was our first endorsement of the 2022 cycle. This bill, however, is a bad bill and is not in the public interest.

https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/Detail?id=hb1610&ddBienniumSession=2023%2F2023R&Search=

By requiring a quorum before a meeting is subject to FOIA / Open Records laws, school boards, city councils, and quorum courts will meet in secret, whether by email, text, or in person. It’s very easy for a 13 member board to put 6 members in one room, 6 in another, and have one go between. Government operates best in sunlight, and while well-meaning, Representative Bentley’s bill will result in government operating in darkness behind closed doors.

We strongly urge you to OPPOSE HB1610.

Committee members who will consider this bill are listed below:

SB81: Final Action Call

BACKGROUND:

Remind your state representatives THIS WEEKEND to SUPPORT SB81, the bill to establish a process of challenging inappropriate library books.

If you haven’t visited your local library, you might be surprised at the pure pornography in the children’s section. These leftist librarians are pushing their agenda on our kids, and this bill helps us to challenge and hopefully stop it.

ACTION:

Contact YOUR OWN state representative BEFORE 8AM Monday. Then contact any others you are able to reach. Tell them not to fall victim to the woke mob, that you SUPPORT SB81.

SB250 Update & Action Call

BACKGROUND:

SB250 (the bad bill that removes local control from elections) has already passed the Senate and goes before the House State Agencies & Governmental Affairs Committee on Monday (3/13). The meeting takes place in Room 151 at approximately 2:30 PM.

1.) SB250 is a vague bill that leaves plenty of room for the left-leaning State Board of Election Commissioners to interpret and make their own rules. For instance, how does the bill affect Pulaski County, where they already vote using paper ballots on Election Day?

2.) SB250 makes it difficult for counties to switch to secure paper ballots by placing additional burdens on them. Additionally, it burdens small counties who might choose to implement paper ballots in order to save time and money in small elections.

3.) SB250 financially penalizes counties that switch to secure paper ballots. The state currently reimburses ~ 11 cents per ballot in the primary. As written, paper ballot counties would be expected to cover their own costs, while voting computer counties would be reimbursed by the state.

ACTION:

1.) Call, text, and email members of the House Committee on State Agencies and Governmental Affairs (below). Tell them you OPPOSE SB250 for multiple reasons, that they should go back to the drawing board to make the bill fairer to counties which choose to implement paper ballot systems.

2.) Also contact YOUR OWN State Representative to OPPOSE SB250.

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