The two major party candidates for Secretary of State - Republican Jason Gibbs and Democrat Jim Condos - debate campaign finance, electronic voting, corporate and professional licensing and the other top issues.

Democrats have seized on a car crash by Republican secretary of state candidate Jason Gibbs late last week.  Gibbs say he was simply exhausted when he went off Vermont Route 100 near his home in Duxbury at about 12:45 Friday morning.

The latest buzz word in the political lexicon is transparency. It's defined as the commitment to open and accountable government. And transparency is becoming an issue in the race for secretary of state.

The five-way contest for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination took a partisan turn this week: Republicans are attacking Democrat Deb Markowitz. The criticism didn't come from another candidate for governor.

In what is normally a quiet statewide race, the candidates for the Republican nomination for Secretary of State are already accusing each other of negative campaigning.