 The Secretary of State's office sent a letter on Wednesday announcing the decision to reject the Arkansas abortion amendment. The amendment was sponsored by a group called Arkansans for Limited Government. They say they had collected over 101,000 signatures to put the amendment on the ballot. Secretary of State John Thurston said he could not certify the amendment because the sponsors did not submit two specific pieces of paperwork. The first was a list of paid canvassers, and the second was a document proving that paid canvassers had access to the signature gathering handbook.