Stephens v. Martin (Majority)
Annotate this CaseOn August 21, 2014, the Secretary of State certified a proposed initiated act known as “An Act to Increase the Arkansas Minimum Wage” to the county boards of election commissioners and advised the county boards that the proposed initiated act would be Issue No. 5 on the November 4, 2014 general-election ballot. Petitioner brought this original action challenging the sufficiency of the petition, contending that the petition had not been timely filed and that the proposed initiated act was not facially valid because it relied on forged notaries to reach the signature threshold. The Supreme Court denied the petition, holding that the petition was timely filed and that the petition, on its face, contained the requisite signatures of a sufficient number.
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