Another COVID-era low score for Arkansas: On safe voting - Arkansas Times

Brookings has compiled a state-by-state scorecard on safe voting (ease of absentee voting, in other words) during the  pandemic.

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Unsurprisingly, Arkansas, where vote suppression is official government policy, scored poorly.

Missouri and Alabama got F grades. And nine states got Ds. But Arkansas’s C score was 6 of a possible 22 points, a tie with the Dakotas and Tennesse for the lowest score among the C states and only one point above a D grade.

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Note that Arkansas was given one point for nominally being able to cite COVID-19 as an excuse to get an absentee ballot. But this is not firmly established in law, though a pending lawsuit seeks to accomplish that.

The survey didn’t include in-person practices. I wonder if Arkansas would have had points deducted for the governor’s edict that polling places are exempted from his new mask mandate.

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