GOP secretary of state hopeful Alex Kolodin won’t say Arizona elections are secure

Alex Kolodin, the Republican nominee for Arizona secretary of state, repeatedly declined during a televised candidate forum to say the state's elections are safe and secure, instead attacking incumbent Democrat Adrian Fontes and citing low voter confidence. Host Ted Simons pressed him multiple times without getting a direct answer.

Fontes accused Kolodin of dodging because honest answers would alienate voters, and called him the architect of election-fraud claims now campaigning to fix the distrust he helped create. Kolodin, a former Trump campaign attorney who helped file the 2020 'kraken' lawsuit — later dismissed by a federal judge and sanctioned by an Arizona Supreme Court disciplinary panel — called the 'election denier' label absurd without addressing the specifics.

On mail voting, Kolodin equivocated on whether it invites fraud, saying it can be safe 'when we have a secretary of state that will follow the law,' notably avoiding criticism of Trump's own attacks on the practice despite the president himself voting by mail.

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