By Jeremy Duda | Arizona Mirror
In a radio interview to discuss his so-called “independent audit” into Maricopa County’s handling of the 2018 general election, Arizona Republican Party Chairman Jonathan Lines falsely accused County Recorder Adrian Fontes of ignoring instructions from the Board of Supervisors to not open several emergency voting centers.
Lines told KFYI host Mike Broomhead on Nov. 16 that the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors ordered Fontes not open emergency voting centers, but that the Democratic recorder did so anyway. His decision to open five centers on the Saturday and Monday before the election has been a source of intense criticism from Republicans, who have accused him of using them as a de facto extension of early in-person voting, which by state law ends at 5 p.m. on the Friday before Election Day.
