Fontes and Kolodin clash over mail voting and election results as debate devolves into name-calling

Republican Alexander Kolodin and Democrat Adrian Fontes clashed during a debate over election-night results and mail-in voting. The event was marked by personal attacks and name-calling between the candidates for Arizona's top election official.
In a heated debate full of name-calling and personal barbs, Republican Alexander Kolodin promised Arizonans that, as the state’s top election official, he would deliver election-night results — something that Democratic Secretary of State Adrian Fontes said was impossible. During the hour-long Arizona Citizens Clean Elections debate, Kolodin, a state representative member of the far-right […]
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