Hobbs, a lieutenant colonel in the Washington State National Guard and a former state senator from Snohomish County, was appointed last autumn to fill Kim Wyman’s position after the thrice-elected Republican departed for an election-security job in the Biden administration.
The secretary of state maintains the state archives, registers corporations and nonprofits and oversees Washington’s vote-by-mail system, a critical task as foreign actors and people claiming election fraud assail the institution. Voters have elected Republicans to the job ever since 1964, and Wyman – who won her last election in 2020 – and her predecessors helped institute mail balloting.
Many primary votes remain to be counted in the coming days
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