Washington’s newly-elected Secretary of State says a critical system for voters is under attack by critics spreading misinformation.
Secretary of State Steve Hobbs sat down with KIRO 7′s Ranji Sinha for a wide-ranging talk on voting, and he made his position clear on how voter access needs to be expanded nationwide and how he sees Washington state as a model for others.—I’m Ranji Sinha in Studio, and we are joined this morning by Secretary of State Steve Hobbs. Thank you very much for coming to our studios, Mr. Secretary. [You’re] newly elected [after] decades with Republicans in the position.
One of the things we’re trying to do is not only are we doubling the size of cyber security and putting out the word about how elections are ran, but we’re also doing things like putting out legislation out there to let people know that we’re leaning forward.I absolutely do, and I certainly hope that the bill that’s sitting in Washington D.C. in the Senate passes because it models what we do in the state. About 90% [of] that bill is what we already do.
Unfortunately, because [of] this false narrative, that ERIC is somehow a system that only helps Democrats, which is simply not true. Republicans are part of this. There’s good Republican Secretaries of State ... that believe in ERIC. I’m hoping, and I’m working with the other Secretaries of State, to urge those other states to reconsider and to join ERIC because there’s really no other way to do this effective data sharing.I think they need to know that their elections are secure, transparent and accessible. I think they need to know that county auditors are the ones to actually do it on-the-ground, and that they have access to that.
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