Early Voting Not Going Well In Some Counties
By: Import User
Updated: January 7, 2009
Early voting for the May 18th primaries
began Monday, but a few Arkansas counties experienced delays and
alleged problems in Phillips County have prompted a lawsuit.
Phillips, Craighead and Clark counties all reported one-day
delays, while election officials in St. Francis County still were
not sure when early voting would begin there. St. Francis County
ballots were expected to arrive from the printers Friday or
Saturday.
Officials disagreed over whether a fifth county, Polk, had
experienced problems.
In Phillips County, James Valley, a county quorum court member
and candidate in the primary, sued the county Monday over the
one-day delay in early voting there. Valley asks that extra voting
hours be added to make up for the missed time.
