Proposed amendment to safeguard democracy in Arkansas faces rejection again

A proposed constitutional amendment intended to safeguard direct democracy in Arkansas was rejected for a second time on Tuesday by Attorney General Tim Griffin.

The reason: it didn’t comply with a new law requiring ballot titles to be written at or below an eighth-grade reading level.

Passed by lawmakers in April, Act 602 bars the attorney general from certifying any ballot title that exceeds an eighth-grade reading level, as measured by the Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level formula…

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