In a 40-minute interview with Crosscut on Tuesday, Hobbs said his office wants to expand the election cybersecurity office created by his Republican predecessor, Kim Wyman, who left in November to take a job in the Biden administration.
Hobbs, a former state senator from Lake Stevens, also wants the Office of the Secretary of State to play an increasingly proactive role in stamping out election-related misinformation and disinformation on social media.
“What we will do is lean forward — as we say in the military, ‘lean forward in the saddle’ — instead of sitting back and allowing a tweet to become a retweet, [then] becoming a meme, and, all of
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