During nonpresidential election years, Arkansas's primary elections will be moved from May to March and the fiscal legislative session will be moved to April, according to a new law signed this week.

President Trump's executive order seeking to impose federal oversight on state-run elections is not needed and is not legal. And tasking Elon Musk's incompetent DOGE team makes it even worse. Voter fraud and multiple votes by the same person in a single election is a largely nonexistent bogeyman of Trump's.

A group of 19 Democratic attorneys general is suing the Trump administration over its sweeping executive order targeting election rules and administration across the country, saying the president has no authority to make changes to federal elections.

If every one of those bills were, in fact, constitutional and were upheld, you couldn't do this process at all,” attorney David Couch said.

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