Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes on Thursday declared the wrong candidate as the winner of the Green Party’s U.S. Senate primary in the state.
Fontes signed a canvass declaring Mike Norton the winner. Norton’s name appeared on the ballot, and he won 180 votes. Write-in candidate Eduardo Quintana won 282 votes, KJZZ reported.
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The Arizona Green Party (AZGP) accused Democrats of running Mike Norton as a sham candidate in their primary race for the U.S. Senate. The AZGP said a detailed thread posted on X earlier this month, that the scheme by the state Democratic Party was to have Norton drop out at the last minute before ballots were printed and endorse the Democratic candidate, Representative Ruben Gallego (D-AZ-03). The third party group noted that a candidate did that in the 2018 U.S. Senate race to allegedly benefit then-Democratic Senator Kyrsten Sinema – who later switched to an independent and is not running for reelection.
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