>> kim wyman says her state system is proof that voting by mail works. >> our state votes entirely by mail and we have since 2011, so we mail every voter that's eligible a ballot about 20 days before election day and then they get to vote when convenient for them. >> why should i trust your mo seases? why should the other 49 states trust what you are doing? >> because we have spent about 20 years fine tuning in, building in the security measures so when people attack it and call it into question and say there's fraud, we can demonstrate it's secure, and we can show how it really empowers everyone to participate. >> have you told your republican colleagues and other states about this? they don't seem too interested in expanding vote by mail. >> well, we have been working with all 50 states, and, certainly, different states are in different places in terms of their technology and capacity for mail-in voting. but i think every one of my counterparts wants to empower voters, giving them options to choose top vote at home or in person and i am confident by november they will be ready. >> y

kim wyman is washington's 15th secretary of state, first elected in 2012.er she is serving her second term and is only the second female secretary of state in washington's history. prior to being elected to this office, kim served as thurston county elections director for a nearly a decade and was elected thurston county auditor from 2001 to 2013. secretary wyman, as washingtonians, we have had vote by mail for a number of years p now. can you please tell us about on washington state's experience with vote by mail and how you ou address issues of safety and sec security? >> i would be> happy to. thank you so much for allowing meme to be on this panel, and thank you for the workrk that tn committee and the bar has done. this is a really important topic and a very important year to do this work. work. i'm going to take a minute to bring up, hopefully, if the tech agrees, a powerpoint presentation and just walk just through what i would term the speed version of washington state elections, e andlect are l seeing that? okay. i'm thatnot, ironically.at's ki that's kind of fun. i love techn

joining me now, kim wyman thank you for your time again. you're the expert since you've been at it for so long in washington. i was reading the transcript of an interview you did, you can handle this but what strikes you as the vitriol. you're a republican, but the nation's top republican saying fraud, rigged, saying things that are frankly wrong, correct? >> that's correct. and every time president trump takes a swing at absentee ballots of vote by mail ballots it undermines confidence. so officials have more to do to make sure their voters know that their vote is protected, their vote is going to be counted accurately and we're going to count for every vote we receive. >> the numbers the president was using with savannah guthrie were wrong. but there are cases where people are finding ballots discarded or in wrong locations. are other secretaries of state reaching out to you to how to handle it? are you concerned so far? do you think these are routine hiccups? >> we've been working with secretaries of state and election officials from acr

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