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or better competence through appropriate position of
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these responsibilities than being elected. Let's take a
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look at the other States who do have elected Secretaries
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of State, Comptrollers or Auditors, whatever you wish to
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call them, and they are not faring as well as Maryland,
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and they are elected. Now, the same argument can be
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turned around that, because they are elected, they don't
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have as good a system. Isn't that possible?
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MR. GOLDSTEIN: What State are you talking
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about?
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MR. SAYRE: You could take almost any State.
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MR. GOLDSTEIN: ' I would like to know, which
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State are you talking about? Be specific. You say some-
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thing is wrong. Let's be specific. Which State?
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MR. SAYRE: Well, let's take the State of
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Washington, where the Secretary of State exercises some
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of the same responsibilities you have there. I don't
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think that they have had the same type of accountability
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that you have provided.
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MR. GOLDSTEIN: Washington State elects the
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Governor, Lieutenant-Governor , Secretary of State,
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