The Seattle Times reports. The write-in candidate, Joshua Freed, racked up 19 percent “with a platform that said he was ‘against raising taxes’ and helping ‘those afflicted by drug addiction,’” according to the Times.
He’s a former mayor of Bothell, Wash.Bryce Bennett, also gay, lost the race for Montana secretary of state to Christi Jacobsen by a margin of 59 percent to 41 percent, Ballotpedia reports.
Bennett is a state senator, and Jacobsen, a Republican, is deputy to the current secretary of state, Corey Stapleton, who did not seek reelection.