Opinion No.

The Honorable Mike Beebe Governor State Capitol, Suite 250 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201

Dear Governor Beebe:

I am writing in response to your request for an opinion regarding issues that have arisen in a contested mayoral election that occurred on November 7, 2006 between Veronica Post and Gary Zolliecoffer. As the background for your four questions, you explain the detailed history giving rise to your questions. The history can be reduced to two categories: litigation and the Board of Election Commissioners' actions, both of which revolve around Zolliecoffer's two felony convictions.

In 1965,…