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In three states, the secretary of state is elected by the state legislature: the General Assembly of Tennessee meets in joint convention to elect the secretary of state to a four-year term, [4] and the Maine Legislature and New Hampshire General Court also select their secretaries of state, but to two-year terms. [5]
The United States secretary of state (SecState) [5] is a member of the executive branch of the federal government and the head of the Department of State.The office holder is the second-highest-ranking member of the president's Cabinet, after the vice president, and ranks fourth in the presidential line of succession; first amongst cabinet secretaries.
Secretary of State Diego Morales was elected in 2022 with 54.1% of the vote. He is eligible to run for re-election but has not yet stated if he will do so. Beau Bayh, judicial law clerk for the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and son of former Indiana governor Evan Bayh, is a potential Democratic candidate.
The secretary of state of Vermont serves two-year terms and was last elected in 2018. Going into the election, there were 26 Republican secretaries of state and 21 Democratic secretaries of state. 5 Republican secretaries of state were up for election, of whom Corey Stapleton of Montana and Bev Clarno of Oregon are retiring. 2 Democratic ...
North Carolina Secretary of State Elaine Marshall (L) instructs the state's Electors about procedural matters during a rehearsal for tomorrow's electoral college vote in a hall of the North ...
Schwab was first elected to the Kansas House of Representatives in 2002, serving as speaker pro tempore of the state's House of Representatives before being elected secretary of state in 2018.
The secretary of state of California is the chief clerk of the U.S. state of California, overseeing a department of 500 people.The secretary of state is elected for four year terms, like the state's other constitutional officers; the officeholder is restricted by term limits to two terms.
But since 2020, secretaries of state and other state officials who oversee elections have come under. Arizona Secretary of State GOP candidate Mark Finchem, who has denied the 2020 election ...