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Senate committee advances bill limiting early-voting closures to state holidays
Senate State Agencies & Governmental Affairs Committee · February 9, 2023
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Summary
The Senate State Agencies & Governmental Affairs committee passed House Bill 1198 in a voice vote after testimony that the bill would end unequal early-voting days across counties by removing county holidays from the list of days polls must be closed.
House Bill 1198 was presented to the Senate State Agencies & Governmental Affairs committee and passed by voice vote after brief discussion.
Lindsay French of the Association of Arkansas Counties told the committee the bill's effect is small but practical: "This is an elections bill that doesn't do much, and I know that sounds…
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