Fontes and Republicans spar over E-Qual outage, Arizona election funding

[RandySF]

Democratic Secretary of State Adrian Fontes and Republican lawmakers are pointing fingers at each other after an online portal used by candidates trying to qualify for the ballot crashed over the weekend.

Every candidate running for office in Arizona needs to collect a certain number of voter signatures before they can appear on the ballot in an upcoming election.

They can collect those signatures in-person or by using the online E-Qual system.

That system, which faced a cyberattack last summer, went offline on Friday afternoon and wasn’t fully operational again until Sunday.



https://www.kjzz.org/politics/2026-02-09/fontes-and-republicans-spar-over-e-qual-outage-arizona-election-funding

[in2herbs]

1. Republicans say it's OK to collect signatures on-line to run for office but it's not OK to vote - even

for those candidates -- online.

If this is the position of the Rs maybe the Ds should attack voter integrity at the petition gathering position and then see what Rs have to say about on-line voting.