LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Get Loud Arkansas (GLA), Vote.org and two Arkansas voters filed a federal lawsuit in the Western District of Arkansas on Wednesday challenging the state's new "wet signature rule," which advocates claim suppresses new voters.
Last month, state election commissioners ordered county clerks to reject digital signatures made on computers and tablets, requiring people registering to vote to do so by hand and ink–also called a "wet signature."
GLA, a nonprofit organization that provides accessible means for Arkansans to register to vote, has been conducting voter registration drives and had to toss previous voter registration forms they had collected.