Editor's note: The following article once again demonstrates the extreme partisan actions of Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes to favor Democrats in the 2024 election. Mr. Fontes has a clear history of partisan activity as current and former Maricopa County Recorder, a position that has been overruled several times by the Arizona Supreme Court. From 2018 to the present, he has repeatedly influenced Arizona and national elections by inappropriately and illegally exhibiting extreme partisan bias in a supposedly nonpartisan office. A notable example is the issue of cleaning up the voter rolls, which he rejected. Fontes' response to Arizona's legally mandated voter roll management is an unethical and extreme violation of his current position in one of the highest and most important positions in our representative state government. It reflects partisan behavior.
Read what Fontes said in an interview with 12 News below about Arizonans who have questions about our election system. “The New American Fascists – MAGA Fascists, Deniers, Terrorists Who Threaten the Lives of Their Neighbors” He threatens free speech just as Governor Hobbs did when he colluded with social media companies as Secretary of State. Arizonans have great concerns about the integrity of the upcoming November election, given Fontes and Hobbs' deep involvement in the workings of our nation's election system and their now-familiar history. must be holding.
Secretary of State Adrian Fontes has pledged to force the government to take a more proactive stance against misinformation ahead of the 2024 election.
Fontes made this promise during the interview. 12 News on sunday. The Secretary of State said his office would also take on addressing other elected officials as needed.
“You will see Take a more aggressive stance against people who are lying about the election” Fontes said. “What they are doing is creating mistrust among the public where there shouldn't be. None of the allegations or big lies about fraud have been proven to be true.”
Fontes did not rule out that his office could take legal action against what it deemed to be false information. Fontes said voters in Arizona are voting with paper ballots rather than voting machines, an example of the misinformation his office targets.
“We're not going to play the victim role. What we're going to do is come right out and talk directly to voters,” Fontes said. “When someone says, 'Hey, there's a problem with the voting machines in Arizona.' Well, we don't have voting machines in Arizona. We vote with paper ballots. Every vote in Arizona. have always been done with paper ballots. “Voting machines” are a lie. That is our proactive stance in our communication strategy. ”
Strictly speaking, a “voting machine” is a device that records votes electronically, without using paper. Arizona doesn't have voting machines, but it does have equipment to count votes cast with paper ballots.
Since taking office, Fontes has vowed to fight misinformation and disinformation. In an interview, Fontes declared that election disinformation amounted to “terrorism” and that those behind the rhetoric were “fascists.” MSNBC Immediately after taking the oath of office. Fontes called on people to “attack” disinformation about the election.
“These new American fascists, these MAGA fascists. — you call them denialists, but they are fascists — we need to call them what they are,” Fontes said. “We have to stop acting like their feelings matter. They are threatening the lives of our neighbors and families, and they are threatening the health of our democracy. I am doing it.”
Mr. Fontes' predecessor, now Gov. Katie Hobbs, also took a hard line against election misinformation. hobbes coordinated We worked with the Center for Internet Security (CIS), a government-funded organization, to censor online speech about the 2020 election.
Allie Bones, Mr. Hobbs' former chief of staff, told reporters around Mr. Hobbs' inauguration that it is the government's job to remove disinformation from the public sphere.
Mr. Hobbs was one of many government officials who worked with social media companies to suppress and censor speech on key public issues. Last fall, the Supreme Court agreed To take up litigation regarding this adjustment; Marcy vs. Missouri. The court also granted the Biden administration's request to block a lower court order barring government officials from communicating with social media companies about content moderation policies.
Hobbes' actions inspired Creates a new task force in the state Legislature to examine relationships between government officials and social media companies. House Select Committee on Oversight, Accountability, and Big Tech convened 3 times SeptemberOctober, December.
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This article Published in free news in arizona Reprinted with permission.
