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30 September
7:56 pm

Adrian Fontes was trying to exclude observers from early in-person voting locations, and Kolodin had to work with governor Katie Hobbs to stop him.

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Alexander Kolodin, at Arizona Secretary of State General Election Debate

7:56 pm
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Why we checked itThis is a specific allegation that a named official (Fontes) attempted an illegal act — excluding observers from early voting locations — and that Kolodin and Hobbs intervened to stop it. If inaccurate, it materially misleads voters about Fontes's conduct.
What we foundThe core facts are partially real — the Pima County Recorder did exclude observers from early voting using EPM language, and the 2025 EPM was later changed to require observer access — but the claim overstates Fontes's direct role in the exclusion and misattributes the actor, and the specific framing of Kolodin 'working with Hobbs to stop Fontes' is sourced almost entirely from Kolodin's own account and is contested by his primary opponent.
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