Arkansas: DMV software error could block some voters from the polls without correction | George Fabe Russell/Fort Smith Southwest Times Record
About 49,000 Arkansas voters who updated their voter registrations at the Department of Motor Vehicles earlier this year may be registered under the wrong address because of a software error. The Arkansas Department of Finance and Administration has said that it will send out letters to all those who might have been affected, though not everyone who updated their address during the window when the software issues happened will see problems with their registration. In Arkansas, voters making changes to their address at the DMV can update their voter registration information at the same time. From January to late March, software errors in the system used to communicate that information to county clerks led some people’s registration to be incorrectly updated. Read Article