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Washington's Secretary of State will fund MS-ISAC membership for all county election offices to bolster cybersecurity and incident response for elections.
In a special election on Sept. 9, Washington voters enacted changes to the Land Use Ordinance including transferring some review power from the Planning Board to the CEO and "Housekeeping" updates to the language in the code,
Attorney General Nick Brown and Secretary of State Steve Hobbs condemned the federal administration for seeking information protected by state law.
The Trump administration has requested information about Washington voters, including names, dates of birth, addresses and either a driver’s license number or the last four digits of their Social Security number as part of a probe into “ineligible voter entities.
Washington Secretary of State Steve Hobbs says he is inclined to refuse a demand by the U.S. Department of Justice for sensitive state voter-roll data.
For years Trump and his supporters have wrongly criticized Washington's vote by mail system because its convenience helps boost voter participation.
The DOJ demands Washington's voter data, raising privacy concerns for the state's Office of the Secretary of State.
In five of the last seven presidential elections, voters opted for a president from the other party. In the same time period, voters elected a new Senate majority five times and picked a new House majority four times.