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30 September
7:17 pm

Fontes said he never got the information from the federal government, and he was exposed by the counties

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Alexander Kolodin, at Arizona Secretary of State General Election Debate

7:17 pm
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Why we checked itKolodin claims Fontes made a specific excuse about lacking federal data and that county officials contradicted this — both the statement and the contradiction are verifiable
What we foundFontes publicly stated the DOJ was the bottleneck for missing felony reports, but multiple independent sources — including a DOJ spokesperson and Maricopa County Recorder Justin Heap — confirmed the DOJ had in fact been providing the reports; the exposure came from county officials.
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