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.

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.

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.

The U.S. Department of Justice has requested Washington's voter registration records, including sensitive personal data.

OLYMPIA, Wash. — The U.S. Department of Justice has ordered Washington state to turn over its full voter registration database within two weeks, prompting pushback from Secretary of State Steve Hobbs, who says he will not release private voter information.

The DOJ demands Washington's voter data, raising privacy concerns for the state's Office of the Secretary of State.

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.