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30 September
7:30 pm

Ballot tracking came to Arizona through the system that I brought it here in America County

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Adrian Fontes, at Arizona Secretary of State General Election Debate

7:30 pm
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Why we checked itFontes claims credit for initiating ballot tracking in Arizona (via Maricopa County), which is a verifiable historical claim about the origin of the program
What we foundFontes did introduce a text-based ballot tracking system in Maricopa County as Recorder, but ballot tracking itself already existed in multiple Arizona counties before his tenure, making his claim to have originated ballot tracking in Arizona overstated.
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