Constitution of Arkansas (2025 publisher edition) — Amendment 50: ELECTIONS CONDUCTED BY BALLOT OR VOTING

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its preamble, twenty original articles, schedule and 104 published amendments, including annotations and explicit repealed notices. Repealed notices remain historical publisher context.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 50

AMEND. 50. ELECTIONS CONDUCTED BY BALLOT OR VOTING
MACHINE (CONST., ART. 3, § 3, REPEALED AND NEW SECTIONS
ADDED) .
Publisher’s Notes. This amendment was proposed by
initiative petition and adopted at the general election on
Nov. 6, 1962, by a vote of 134,782 for and 132,123 against.
Effective Dates.
Const. Amend. 50, § 5: Jan. 15, 1963.
§ 1. Repeal of Article III, Section 3.
Article III, Section 3, of the Constitution of the State of Arkansas is hereby repealed and the
following section is substituted therefor.
§ 2. Elections by ballot or voting machines authorized.
All elections by the people shall be by ballot or by voting machines which insure the secrecy of
individual votes.
§ 3. [Repealed.]
Publisher’s Notes. This section was repealed by Ark.
Const. Amend. 81, which was proposed by H.J.R. 1004
during the 2001 Regular Session and adopted at the
November 2002 general election. The former section pro-
vided: “In elections by ballot every ballot shall be num-
bered in the order in which it is received, the number shall
be recorded by the election officers on the list of voters
opposite the name of the elector who presents the ballot,
and the election officers shall be sworn or affirmed not to
disclose how any elector voted unless required to do so as
witnesses in a judicial proceeding or a proceeding to
contest an election.”
§ 4. Voting machines.
Voting machines may be used to such extent and under such rules as may be prescribed by the
General Assembly.