LITTLE ROCK, Ark.- Some Arkansans are already looking ahead to 2020 before this year’s election is over.

The attorney general recently approved Little Rock attorney David Couch’s redistricting ballot initiative.

It would transfer the power from the politicians to the people to redraw the state’s constituency districts in 2021, ahead of the 2022 election.

Couch plans to start collecting signatures for it next week, on Election Day.

He is also in the process of studying a recreational marijuana measure after he authored the state’s medical marijuana amendment in 2016.

“That’s how we can do things that are of a progressive, populous nature in Arkansas, because we really are kind of a compassionate people,” says Couch. “So, you find those issues that resonate with the people who are compassionate or caring, and this does that.”

Couch says both redistricting and recreational marijuana will attract bipartisan support.