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Adrian Fontes: “Elections were declared critical infrastructure by the…”

Featuring: Adrian Fontes, Democratic | Secretary of State of Arizona

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A Conversation with Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes

Published | Video Starts at 06:41

Well, let me go back a little further than that. In January of 2017, just a few weeks after I took office, Elections were declared critical infrastructure by the Department of Homeland Security in January of 2017. and through 2020, we were really looking at security, we were looking at cybersecurity, we were looking at a lot of things that elections administrators had never really looked at before. (06:41–06:54)

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