Scholarship Lottery committee files brief

The Hope for Arkansas committee asks the Arkansas Supreme Court to dismiss the ballot challenge filed as an “eleventh-hour” attempt to derail the democratic process. Click the document below for your copy:

Summary of the brief: · The popular name and ballot title are not misleading and completely convey the text of the amendment. · The amendment “amends” and does not repeal Article19, Section 14 of the Arkansas Constitution, which currently prohibits lotteries. · Voters know what “state lotteries” are, so the use of this term in the popular name and ballot title is not misleading. · The amendment authorizes the General Assembly to establish state lotteries and has no effect on existing laws that prohibit casino gaming.