Washington's Secretary of State will fund MS-ISAC membership for all county election offices to bolster cybersecurity and incident response for elections.

Attorney General Nick Brown and Secretary of State Steve Hobbs condemned the federal administration for seeking information protected by state law.

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,

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.

Then the council will have to go through the same process again and name someone to fill the new two-year term that begins in January 2026, unless Serrano wins and accepts the District 4 seat. Voters will get to choose their own replacement in November 2027.

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.