OREGON KGW 8 —Oregon and Washington state and local leaders are lining up to defend vote-by-mail elections as the White House called vote-by-mail a fraud during a Monday news conference.

A local leader with the National Vote at Home Institute says anyone who’s voted in Oregon must recognize the system is secure after going through all the safeguards.

“There’s no such thing as making copies and submitting them,” Barbara Smith Warner said, “because every ballot is tied with that barcode to one individual voter.” Smith Warner said people can track their ballots from delivery to the collection box. She said some form of vote-by-mail is used in every state.

“Voting is the foundational element of our democracy, it is what makes everything else work,” Smith Warner said. She said a previous executive order by Trump regarding vote-by-mail submissions after the voting deadline is hung up in court due to lawsuits including one by Oregon’s and Washington’s attorneys general.