Highlights
- Secretary of State Adrian Fontes launched arizona.vote to give voters reliable information about how Arizona elections work.
- The site covers registration deadlines, early ballot requests, ID requirements, and ballot tracking ahead of the Nov. 3 general election.
- A 2025 opt-in survey of 948 registered voters found 70% expressed total confidence in Arizona elections, up from 58% in 2021.
- Republican challenger Alexander Kolodin claims election confidence is at an all-time low; Fontes disputes that characterization.
Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes has launched arizona.vote, a state-run website designed to give voters factual information about how Arizona elections work before misinformation takes hold ahead of the Nov. 3 general election.
Fontes has set up a website, " arizona.vote ", he hopes will counter that misinformation by giving voters reliable, easily accessible information about how Arizona's elections work before the next controversy, rumor or false claim takes hold, the Arizona Capitol Times reported. The site covers voter registration deadlines, Oct. 5 for the Nov. 3 general election, early ballot requests, in-person ID requirements, and ballot tracking.
Fontes addressed a persistent claim that voting machines are connected to the internet. The tabulators are not linked to the internet, he said, and they undergo mandatory "logic and accuracy testing," where a batch of sample ballots with known results is fed through tabulators to ensure they count accurately. Arizona law also requires a random hand-count audit after every election, where a certain number of races from a certain number of precincts, all chosen by party officials, are tabulated by hand to see whether the totals match what the machines counted.
On paper ballots, Fontes was direct: in Arizona, all of our votes are cast on paper ballots, with those ballots fed into tabulators that do the counting.
The effort comes as Republican state Rep. Alexander Kolodin, who is challenging Fontes in November, said during a televised debate that confidence in Arizona elections is at an all-time low and that the responsibility sits squarely on Fontes. That assertion may not hold up against available data. In an opt-in online survey of 948 registered voters last year, weighted to reflect political and other demographics, pollster Mike Noble found 70% said they were "totally confident" in elections, up from 58% in 2021, at the height of the Cyber Ninjas audit. Noble noted the 2021 figure reflected a highly partisan split, with just 40% of Republicans expressing confidence versus 80% of Democrats.
The Secretary of State's Office confirmed the site launch separately. Voter registration closes Oct. 5 for those wishing to participate in the Nov. 3 general election.
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- azcapitoltimes.com retrieved 09/09/2026 00:54
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