Voter Protection: Be Involved
Make sure your vote counts!
Secretary of State
256 State Capitol • Little Rock, AR 72201
Ph: (501) 682-1010
ARKANSAS VOTER’S ADDRESS AND PARTY AFFILIATION ARE PUBLIC
Home address and party affiliation leak removes voting choice anonymity.
Arkansas is one of the few states that doesn’t provide online voting registration, but it does use an online system for checking registered voters. Pre-requisites are first and last name; and date of birth. This system allows anyone to know another person’s home address and party affiliation.
ARKANSAS POLL TABLETS CONNECTED TO THE INTERNET
Voting equipment connected to the Internet is at risk of being hacked.
Arkansas 2020 poll workers training manual details how they should proceed on election day. In order to start using the state Express Poll tablets, poll workers have to connect them to Wi-Fi, if available, or to a hotspot (Mi-Fi). Jerry Amick, state manager for ES&S, says that they are connected via Wi-Fi so that all across the state are updated as voters check in to ensures no voters attempt to vote in multiple locations.
- static.ark.org/eeuploads/elections/2020_Poll_Worker_Guide_FINAL.pdf
- www.arkansasonline.com/news/2020/may/24/election-officials-await-machines-20200/
ARKANSAS DATABASE LEAKING VOTER INFORMATION
Personal voter information is leaking online.
In Arkansas, anyone can request voter registration data for a fee, but to obtain the database you have to make an official request by using a voter registration data request form. But the voter database is shared in a web server without authentication and open to anyone globally.
CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTIONS MADE FOR REDUCING A JURY AWARD
Former Sen. Gilbert Baker is accused of being a middleman to bribe a judge.
Baker, a past chairman of the state Republican Party, is facing charges to facilitate a bribe of campaign contributions made to former Faulkner County Circuit Judge Michael Maggio. Maggio lowered a $5.2 million jury verdict against a nursing home to $1 million after the nursing home owner made $30,000 in contributions to PAC’s that were helping Maggio’s campaign. Maggio has already pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 10-years in prison for the bribery charges.
Arkansas Constitutional Preamble
We, the People of the State of Arkansas, grateful to Almighty God for the privilege of choosing our own form of government; for our civil and religious liberty; and desiring to perpetuate its blessings, and secure the same to our selves and posterity; do ordain and establish this Constitution.
