Democrat Adrian Fontes will be Arizona’s next secretary of state, defeating Trump-backed Republican Mark Finchem, a state lawmaker who has spread conspiracy theories about elections.
He was also a major proponent of a review authorized by the GOP-controlled state Senate of all the ballots cast in Maricopa County in November 2020 — which bipartisan election officials, along with the Republican-controlled Maricopa County government, derided as an unprofessional fishing expedition.
Finchem has also called for the 2020 election to be decertified — something that is not legally possible — and has called forFontes served as Maricopa County’s recorder, the county’s chief election position, for four years after narrowly winning the office in 2016. Fontes lost a close election to Republican Stephen Richer in 2020.
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