By Rebekah L. Sanders | The Republic
Recorder Adrian Fontes’ crusade to overhaul the Maricopa County election system is causing concern not only among voters and activists, but among another set of skeptics: the politicians who control his purse strings.
Members of the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors say Fontes has caused confusion among constituents without giving the board a heads-up, and has not outlined his proposed changes sufficiently, even though he must ultimately seek the board’s approval.
The supervisors say their top priority is making sure Fontes doesn’t stretch his office thin with new initiatives and fail to properly plan for the 2018 elections. They warn that they don’t want a repeat of the disastrous 2016 presidential-preference election that occurred under his predecessor, when long polling-place lines kept some voters out until midnight.
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