Overview

• Arkansas jumped from eighth to first in Heritage Foundation’s annual Election Integrity Scorecard, earning a 91 out of 100 for its election laws.
• Key bipartisan reforms passed this spring strengthen voter ID checks, improve registration list accuracy and tighten absentee ballot procedures.
• Secretary of State Cole Jester and Governor Sanders say non-controversial measures make it easy to vote while hardening safeguards against fraud.
• The League of Women Voters of Arkansas calls the report’s criteria “narrow and restrictive” and has sued over recent ballot petition regulations.
• All of the top 10 states in the Heritage Foundation rankings are red states, highlighting a broader conservative consensus on election integrity reforms.