Secretaries of state and poll workers play fundamentally different roles in elections, and no law bars a secretary of state from running for any office.
If Your Time is shortPaul Gosar applied the rules for poll workers to the secretary of state.
Rep. Paul Gosar, R-Ariz., took aim at Secretary of State Katie Hobbs, who narrowly won the race for governor. Gosar implies that the law for poll workers applies to the secretary of state. That is incorrect. The law bars candidates from serving as poll workers, but it does not block secretaries of state from being candidates.at the New York University School of Law, poll workers cannot be candidates. Spouses, children and parents of candidates are also prohibited from being poll workers.of polling stations, or do anything that would interfere with voting.
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