So, to get the basics out of the way: The current secretary of state is Steve Hobbs, a Democrat, former state legislator from Snohomish County and a lieutenant colonel in the Washington National Guard.
Last autumn, Gov. Jay Inslee appointed Hobbs to the job after Wyman, Washington’s thrice-elected secretary of state – and the last Republican to be elected statewide – departed for a job in President Joe Biden’s administration working on election security.
The August primary settled an eight-way contest: Hobbs and Anderson are the only candidates on the Nov. 8 election ballot.
With Washington voters deluged by the usual midterm races for U.S. Congress and the Legislature, and
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