Constitution of Arkansas (2025 publisher edition) — Amendment 36: POLL TAX EXEMPTION.

Publisher edition notice: This collection preserves the complete constitutional appendix of the Secretary of State’s 2025 Election Laws and Constitution compilation: its preamble, twenty original articles, schedule and 104 published amendments, including annotations and explicit repealed notices. Repealed notices remain historical publisher context. Later amendments have not been independently verified.

Amendment 36

AMEND. 36. POLL TAX EXEMPTION.
Members of the armed forces of United States.
Any citizen of Arkansas, while serving in the armed forces of the United States, may vote in any
election, without having paid a poll tax, if otherwise qualified to vote in any such election.
Publisher’s Notes. This amendment was proposed by
initiated petition and adopted at the general election on
Nov. 7, 1944, by a vote of 151,564 for and 38,964 against.
See Acts 1945, p. 774.