They just wholly and completely abandoned their duties and threatened prosecution,” Fontes said. “If they want to apologize for threatening us and ruining perfectly good systems, that’s a good start.

‘I don’t trust you,’ [Fontes told the CISA officials.] ‘Your boss came out there and said: We are going to criminalize the work you do. Why should we trust you?’

This should not be a partisan issue. That’s the hill that I’m willing to die on.

The one chance citizens get, the one chance the governed get to keep us in our place, is being the most heavily regulated.

The danger is foundational.

What Donald Trump did last night was validate everything we’ve done for the past several years.

Our responsibility is to follow the facts, not political rhetoric.

Markwayne Mullin doesn’t know what he’s doing, and neither does the DOJ given they’re 0-for-15.

Markwayne Mullin can go suck on a salt lick.

It is irresponsible and dangerous that this Administration remains dead set on causing chaos for our election officials across this country.

Today’s ruling affirms that the overwhelming majority of those common-sense protections are lawful and appropriate.

Arizona election officials have always worked to ensure that only eligible citizens are registered to vote, and we will continue following Arizona law—not directions that come from political rhetoric or intimidation.

the suggestion that Arizona election officials are failing to do their jobs is simply not supported by the facts.

It is insulting to insinuate that the good people at our county recorders' offices across the state are not doing their jobs correctly.

The current process is confusing to voters and results in some voter applications being totally rejected because of which form they use.

However, after years of legal wrangling and legislation, Arizona does need clarity from the Court on how to administer the citizenship requirement for voting.

The DOJ’s announcement that it plans to appeal a federal judge’s ruling that barred them from accessing Arizona’s voter registration database today is nothing more than ongoing political theater and further damage to Arizona taxpayers.

I want to make this clear to the Trump Administration: you can sue me as many times as you want, but I do not take my responsibilities as Arizona’s Chief Elections Officer lightly and it will take more than political threats and unfounded…

nothing more than a push to weaponize the sensitive personal information of voters in this country

will not let this order stand without a fight and will meet the federal government in court.

And my call to election administrators, not just here in Arizona but across the nation, is to stay strong. Just do your job.

There would have to be a significant shift in the rhetoric and the attitude coming out of senior leadership in the administration before I open my door and say, ‘Yeah, you guys, come on in.’ It’d be foolish of me to let the fox into the…

The time, place and manner of our elections are established by the states. Congress can jump in once in a while, but there’s a process to the rules. You can’t just come in as a wannabe strongman and take things over.

This decision undermines Arizona's election security at a time when our enemies around the world are using online tools to push their agendas and ideologies into our very homes.