{"id":2007842,"date":"2023-08-22T08:28:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-22T12:28:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/arkansas-county-makes-big-move-to-ditch-voting-machines-for-paper-ballots\/"},"modified":"2023-08-22T08:31:04","modified_gmt":"2023-08-22T12:31:04","slug":"arkansas-county-makes-big-move-to-ditch-voting-machines-for-paper-ballots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/arkansas-county-makes-big-move-to-ditch-voting-machines-for-paper-ballots\/","title":{"rendered":"Arkansas County switches from voting machines to paper ballots."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Farkansas-county-makes-big-move-to-ditch-voting-machines-for-paper-ballots%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2007842&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>A County in Arkansas Makes a Bold Move to Restore Trust in Elections<\/h2>\n<p>In a significant step towards\u2062 ensuring the integrity of elections, a county in Arkansas has decided \u200dto <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/arkansas-county-makes-big-move-to-ditch-voting-machines-for-paper-ballots\/\" title=\"Arkansas County switches from voting machines to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/exclusive-michigan-witness-melissa-carone-dominion-ceo-john-poulos-lied-to-michigan-senate-i-have-the-proof-video\/\" title=\"EXCLUSIVE: Michigan Witness Melissa Carone: Dominion CEO John Poulos LIED to Michigan Senate, I HAVE THE PROOF! (VIDEO)\">paper ballots<\/a>.&#8221;>eliminate electronic\u2062 voting machines<\/a>\u2063 and return to paper balloting. The\u200d Searcy County Quorum Court, the county&#8217;s governing body, recently approved a resolution to make this change, with\u2063 a\u2062 final ordinance pending. This move comes\u200d as part of the state&#8217;s Act 350, which requires counties to bear the costs of paper balloting for\u200b elections.<\/p>\n<p>The decision to switch to paper ballots\u200d was made by a bipartisan committee, which\u200b carefully considered the benefits and costs. Wayne \u2064Witcher, a member of the Searcy County\u2064 Quorum\u200b Court, emphasized that the plan is not overly burdensome and would\u2064 not be too expensive to implement.<\/p>\n<p>The county sought guidance from the Arkansas Voter Integrity Initiative,\u200b an advocacy group that supports\u2063 paper-ballot voting.\u200b Conrad Reynold, the CEO of the initiative, commended the citizens of Searcy County for their\u2062 dedication and research in bringing about this change.<\/p>\n<p>While Searcy County is not \u2063the first in Arkansas to consider a return to paper ballots, it is a significant step towards restoring trust in elections. \u200cOther states, including Georgia, have also been studying voting \u2064practices and considering a shift back to paper ballots.<\/p>\n<p>By eliminating electronic voting\u2062 machines and embracing\u2062 paper balloting, these\u2062 states are taking a proactive approach to safeguarding the democratic process. As the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/i-dont-ask-him-even-trump-doesnt-know-if-desantis-is-running-in-24\/\" title=\"\u2018I Don\u2019t Ask Him\u2019: Even Trump Doesn\u2019t Know If DeSantis Is Running In \u201924\">2024 presidential election approaches<\/a>, it is crucial to prioritize the\u200b integrity of our elections by returning to traditional voting methods and ensuring a transparent hand count.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/arkansas-county-makes-big-move-ditch-voting-machines-paper-ballots\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Western Journal<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arkansas&#8217; Searcy County aims to restore faith in elections by replacing electronic voting machines with paper ballots. The county&#8217;s governing body, the Searcy County Quorum Court, voted 6-2 in favor of a resolution to implement this change. However, the transition is still underway, and the process is not yet finalized.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":180,"featured_media":2007843,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[548],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2007842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conservative-news-daily"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2007842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/180"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2007842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2007842\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2007843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2007842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2007842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2007842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}