Arizona's top election official gives update, speaks on Russian video
At a press conference on Tuesday, Arizona's top election official said "everything in the state of Arizona is running about as smoothly as it could be."
Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes said there have been minor incidents Tuesday including a county that briefly lost power and a polling site that opened late after an employee forgot their keys to the polling site. Fontes added that his office received eight calls today— four from counties reporting individuals who were electioneering within 75 feet of polling locations.
When asked by reporters about poll watchers, Fontes said county officials are aware that party observers have to be credentialed and added that the Department of Justice sent federal monitors to four counties. Fontes also warned that it is against the law to photograph or record inside a polling location.
"If you want to memorialize the moment, get outside the 75-foot line, take your selfie and then go in and vote," Fontes said. "Not only do we want to protect the process, but the privacy of the other voters and our staff that are engaged in this process. "
Fontes said that it will take longer for election officials to process results because of the two-page ballot and a new state law that requires poll workers to count the number of mail ballot envelopes dropped off at the location before they deliver results to the central counting facility.
"Please exercise patience," the Arizona Secretary of State said.
When asked about the Russian manufactured video that was released on Monday, Fontes said the video is an "attempt from foreign actors to influence our election and make people lose faith in the work [election officials] do."
"I've got the National Guard working to monitor our computer systems 24/7," Fontes said.
-ABC News' Laura Romero