Following a meeting with Clark County Auditor Greg Kimsey and a tour of the recently remodeled and expanded Clark County Elections Office Wednesday afternoon, U.S. Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, D-Skamania, said she is a firm believer in Washington’s vote-by-mail system and that she will fight to protect it while in Washington, D.C.

With mail-in paper ballots, “there’s no ambiguity,” Perez said. “They’re the gold standard in election security.”

In August, President Donald Trump threatened to end mail-in voting ahead of the 2026 midterm elections despite provisions in the U.S. Constitution that let states, not the federal government, decide their own election methods.

“The Constitution is not fuzzy or hazy on this issue,” Perez said.

Washington state has made allowances for people to

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