Adrian Fontes won the top elections post in Arizona on Friday, defeating a Republican who attended the January rally that preceded the attack on the U.S. Capitol.
Fontes was the former supervisor of the election system in Arizona's most populous county. The secretary of state, working with the governor and attorney general, can rewrite the state's election rules.
One of the most prominent Republicans running for secretary of state positions around the country lied about Biden's legitimacy. After Biden won the state in 2020, he argued for changes to the elections.
The Republicans complained about the length of time it takes to count the votes.
The system is designed that way.
If they were winning, they wouldn't be upset. Everything that needs to be said is said that way.
Fontes said he wouldn't be celebrating as election officials continued to tally votes, despite the mathematical improbability of the race being closer than previously thought. He was declared the winner by the Associated Press after his lead grew.
Fontes said he wouldn't do a lot of celebrating. There's a lot of votes that haven't been counted yet and I want to respect those voters. I don't want to change what I said.
Fontes bragged about Arizona's election system, which he helped implement and which processes hundreds of thousands of late-arriving ballots in just a few days.
He said that the system was very careful. The election system inMaricopa County is the most scrutinized election system of all time. They do a good job down there.
After winning the state's primary election, he said he wanted to restore the rule of law to elections in the state.
In Arizona, reviews of the voting upheld Biden's narrow victory.
He and the Republican candidate for governor filed a lawsuit to get rid of the machines that tabulate votes and replace them with a hand count. Election experts say that hand-counts are prone to human error and are not as accurate as machines.
There is no evidence to support the allegation that the vote-counting machines in Arizona aren't reliable. A federal judge dismissed their lawsuit.
Fontes staked his campaign on protecting voting rights. He lost his seat in the recorder's office to a Republican.
Fontes is one of a group of Democrats who defeated GOP candidates who questioned Biden's victory over Trump. It was time for the public and press to move on, according to him.
You do what you have to do with the loser. He said that you ignore them and move along. They are not stories.
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