Washington AG Brown: ‘States control elections, not the president’Subscriber Exclusive

Washington Attorney General Nick Brown said his office is ready to defend the state’s voting system against attacks from the Trump administration.

“My principal concern is that the president will continue to try to disrupt our systems. He obviously doesn’t like mail-in voting, he lies consistently about election security issues, he issues executive orders to create things like he did a few months ago when he made a national voting registration list, which is unconstitutional,” Brown said during a recent visit to The Columbian. “So we’re fighting back in the courts around that. The law is pretty clear that states control elections, not the president.”