‘He Can Go Suck on a Salt Lick’: Ariz. Secretary of State Reacts to Sec. Mullin Threatening Election Officials with Fines and Jail Time

RUSH EXCERPT:

FONTES: "Well, you know, a local publication quoted me as saying he can go suck on a salt lick. The guy has no idea what he’s talking about. Professional election administrators like myself are really. I’m sick and tired of being insulted by these folks who are completely ignorant as to how these systems work. And one of the things that Stephen said earlier was really important. You’ll learn as you go and as you get involved in local election administration and you watch what’s happening, you can really appreciate the checks and balances, the detailed systems, the really important quality assurance that we go through every single election. My office not only certifies every election official that handles ballots in the entire state, but we do logic and accuracy testing of every single tabulator that is going to be handling ballots every single election. And as Stephen also mentioned, we do audits on the backside as well.”