East Arkansas early voting lawsuit may go before state Supreme Court

A dispute over a West Memphis early voting site should go to the Arkansas Supreme Court, a circuit judge told parties in a lawsuit on Wednesday.

Crittenden County Circuit Court Judge Chris Thyer, in closing statements to attorneys on both sides of a case arguing whether election officials should be required to offer early voting in West Memphis, asked that one or both of the lawyers submit an appeal and take the case to the state’s highest court.

“Take this thing up so the Supreme Court can tell us what these statutes mean, because Lord knows I can’t tell exactly what they mean,” Thyer said.

On Sept. 19, attorney Jennifer Standerfer filed a lawsuit in Crittenden County Circuit Court on behalf of two West Memphis residents, Shirley Brown and Lavonda Taylor, who plan to vote early in the upcoming election.


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