Issue 4: Arkansas Water, Waste Disposal, and Pollution Abatement Facilities Financing Act of 2025.
Arkansas · bond question · on the November 3, 2026 ballot. The ballot wording, in the state’s own words, each read the same way for rhetorical techniques. We don’t recommend a vote.
On the ballot
no rhetorical technique found
Shall the Arkansas Natural Resources Commission be authorized to issue general obligation bonds under the authority of the Arkansas Water, Waste Disposal, and Pollution Abatement Facilities Financing Act of 2025, for the financing and refinancing of the development of water, waste disposal, water pollution control, abatement and prevention, drainage, irrigation, flood control, and wetlands and aquatic resources projects to serve the citizens of the State of Arkansas, in total principal amount not to exceed five hundred million dollars ($500,000,000), with no more than one hundred sixty-five million dollars ($165,000,000) in total principal amount of such bonds to be issued to finance and refinance the development of irrigation facilities, in series from time to time in principal amounts not to exceed, without prior approval of the General Assembly, sixty million dollars ($60,000,000) in any two-year period beginning on July 1 of each odd-numbered year, which bonds shall be secured by a pledge of the full faith and credit of the State of Arkansas?
From sos.arkansas.gov. Checked 2026-10-20. Confirm with your official ballot (sample-ballot lookup).
Arkansas publishes no official arguments for or against. The Secretary of State posts only the legislature's notice (popular name, ballot title, text); the University of Arkansas extension voter guide is not an official election source.
Who’s behind it
Party positions: Democratic Party of Arkansas: No position published · Republican Party of Arkansas: No position published
Committees registered to support or oppose Issue 4, and what they reported to Arkansas Ethics Commission ballot/legislative question committee filings (arkansasethics.com, 'Ballot Question Filings'); Secretary of State 'Financial Disclosure' (ethics-disclosures.sos.arkansas.gov) holds candidate/PAC filers only. Checked 2026-10-21.
Before comparing the sides: each committee’s figures come from its own latest report, so they can cover different dates. Some committees work on more than one measure or other campaigns, and their totals include all of it. A side with no registered committee can still have supporters. How much a side raised says nothing about whether the measure is a good idea.
Supporting
The Committee For Water Infrastructure Now (WIN) For Arkansas
Ballot measure committee
Raised $83,560 · spent $39,190 · as reported through Sep 30, 2026
Largest contributors as filed:
- Arkansas Farm Bureau Federation · $25,000
Other · federal PAC contributions, 2025–26: $0 to Democratic and $53,500 to Republican candidates and party committees (FEC) - American Rivers · $10,000
501(c)(3) nonprofit - Arkansas Wild Fed... (handwritten, truncated; read as Arkansas Wild Federation) · $10,000
501(c)(3) nonprofit - The Nature Conservancy (handwritten) · $6,000
501(c)(3) nonprofit - Arkansas Rural Water Association · $5,500
Trade or professional association
Water Infrastructure For AR
Ballot measure committee
Registered; no financial report filed yet.
Opposing
No registered committee opposing Issue 4 found as of 2026-10-21.
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