A proposed redistricting initiative, sponsored by Little Rock attorney David Couch and Arkansas Voters First, would establish an independent citizens' redistricting commission for both congressional and state legislative districts. The public health crisis made signature gathering much more difficult and led to a lawsuit to change legal requirements. While the District Court ruled for AVF, the 8th Circuit overruled saying that the lower court had applied the wrong legal standard. Ultimately, AVF succeeded in submitting the requisite signatures to the Secretary of State, who then invalidated the signatures claiming AVF failed to meet requirements for paid canvassers. The state Supreme Court has removed this proposed initiative from the ballot.

• This proposed amendment would create an independent nine-member commission. To summarize the selection process, a panel of three retired state appellate judges would first narrow down to three diverse pools of thirty applicants divided by party affiliation (largest party, second-largest, unaffiliated). The Governor and four legislative leaders could then eliminate up to two applicants from each pool. Lastly, the judges panel would randomly select three applicants per pool until each congressional district was represented on the commission.
• The initiative would also prohibit partisanship in districting on a statewide basis, promote competition where feasible, and protect racial and language minority groups' right to vote.
• Lastly, the commission would have to conduct at least one public hearing per congressional district with adequate notice. It also would create a website to publish all commission work products, as well as alternate and final maps.