LITTLE ROCK — An election official says he won't reverse his decision to cancel Republican attorney general hopeful Leslie Rutledge's voter registration in Arkansas over her also being on out-of-state voter rolls.
Rutledge on Thursday had asked Pulaski County Clerk Larry Crane, a Democrat, to reverse his decision this week to cancel her voter registration, saying she followed his staff's instructions when she returned to Arkansas from Virginia. Rutledge filled out a change of address form rather than a new voter registration, which Crane said didn't indicate she was registered in other states.
An attorney for Pulaski County told Rutledge in a letter Thursday that Clerk Larry Crane declined her request to have her voter registration reinstated, and told her that she still has time to re-register for the Nov. 4 election. Monday is the deadline to register, but attorney Amanda Mitchell told Rutledge she should do so by the end of Friday.
Rutledge is running against Democratic state Rep. Nate Steel.
Read Friday's Arkansas Democrat-Gazette for more on this story.
