Arkansas Secretary of State Cole Jester announced Wednesday a new initiative with surrounding states to ensure people are not voting in multiple states.
The 'One State One Vote' initiative "establishes a focused partnership between Arkansas and surrounding states to ensure citizens are not voting in more than one state at a time or registered to vote in multiple states. By identifying voters with duplicate registrations, each state will be able to further investigate potential cases of voter fraud," according to the release.
"Whether intentionally or through failures in record keeping, individuals may be registered in multiple states, which would allow them to vote more than once if they chose to," the release stated.
This initiative has already begun with Jester "working with likeminded secretaries of state to share data on potential duplicate registrations."
Jester's office will investigate all duplicates to determine who has permanently moved out of the state. Through a process, those voters will remove them from Arkansas voter rolls.
“This is about putting election security first. People simply should not be voting in multiple states or be registered to vote in multiple states," Jester said. "In this office, we will always push forward to pursue elections with accuracy and ever increasing excellence."
The release stated that Jester's office will update media once each state has shared and processed the appropriate data.
Read previous Reckoning stories about voting issues in Pulaski County here:
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