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The Arkansas Supreme Court on Thursday dismissed a lawsuit filed by retired U.S. Army Col.

Conrad Reynolds of Conway and the nonprofit Arkansas Voter Integrity Initiative that he leads, asking the state's high court to certify the sufficiency of proposed ballot language for two proposed constitutional amendments. One of the proposed amendments would require elections in Arkansas to be conducted with paper ballots, and the second would impose certain limits on absentee voting. The Restore Election Integrity Arkansas ballot committee proposed both constitutional amendments and filed the lawsuit.



Reynolds is the committee's chief operating officer. The complaint, filed Jan. 9 is against Republican Secretary of State John Thurston and the state Board of Election Commissioners.

The Arkansas Voter Integrity Initiative also has been advocating for Arkansas counties to switch to hand-marked and hand-counted ballots. The complaint sought the state Supreme Court's certification of the proposed popular names and ballot titles for the two proposed constitutional amendments. A ballot committee also is required to turn in 90,704 signatures of registered voters in Arkansas, including signatures from 50 counties, to the secretary of state's office by July 5 to qualify their proposed amendment for the Nov.

5, general election ballot. In their complaint, Reynolds, the Arkansas Voter Integrity Initiative and the Restore Election Integrity Arkansas committee asked the state Supreme Court to decl.

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