Citizens for a Safer Carroll County v. Epley

Ray Thornton, Justice.

Appellants Citizens for a Safer Carroll County are an organization of concerned citizens and church groups that circulated petitions for a vote on the sale and manufacture of intoxicating liquors in certain townships in Carroll County. They bring this appeal from the Carroll County Circuit Court’s decision that certain signatures of persons on their petitions were invalid under Ark. Code Ann. § 3-8-205 (Supp. 1997), with the result that in five precincts there were insufficient signatures on the petitions to place the issue on the ballot for the November 1998 general…