Tim Hazelo will not have to spend any time in jail for disrupting the Island County Elections Office by refusing to wear a mask last year.

A judge in Island County Superior Court handed the former chairperson of the county’s Republican Party a first-time offender waiver during a sentencing hearing Monday afternoon. On July 10, a jury found Hazelo guilty of unauthorized access to a voting center, a felony, and criminal trespass in the first degree, a gross misdemeanor.

Snohomish County Superior Court Judge Joseph Wilson ordered Hazelo to perform 40 hours of community service with a non-political nonprofit group and pay $700 in fines and fees. Wilson pointed out that Hazelo, a convicted felon, lost his right to possess firearms unless a judge someday restores the right, but he will be able

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