Protect Washington's vote-by-mail system.

Adam Smith · Washington · Democratic

policy impact 82.00 specificity 78.00 extraction confidence 98%

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Occurrences

He will fight tooth and nail to protect our vote by mail system.

Commits to defending Washington's vote-by-mail system.

Priorities - Adam Smith for Congress
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He will fight tooth and nail to protect our vote by mail system.

Commits to defending Washington's vote-by-mail system.

Priorities - Adam Smith for Congress
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Evidence

Executive Order 14399, published in the Federal Register, directs DHS to create state citizenship lists and says the USPS should not transmit mail-in or absentee ballots from people not on those lists; it also tells DOJ to prioritize investigations tied to ballot delivery to ineligible voters.

By implication, Washington's vote-by-mail system was under direct federal threat rather than protected, so the promise remained unresolved.

unresolved same_term

Ensuring Citizenship Verification and Integrity in Federal Elections
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A federal judge in Boston allowed Democratic-led states and voting-rights groups to keep pursuing lawsuits against Trump's mail-in voting order, which keeps the legality of the ballot restriction contested.

This is a concrete sign that the challenge to mail-ballot restrictions was still active during the lookback window, not resolved in favor of protecting the system.

unresolved same_term

Lawsuit from Democratic-led states can proceed over Trump's order to restrict mail-in voting - as it happened
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Assessments

unresolved unknown

The promise is still best scored as unresolved. The evidence provided shows Washington's vote-by-mail system remained under active federal pressure in 2026, including an executive order targeting mail-ballot handling and ongoing litigation over those restrictions. That means the promised protective outcome was not clearly secured during the relevant period. There is also no evidence here that Rep. Adam Smith personally delivered a completed federal protection or materially advanced a measure that later became law, so full delivery or later-term credit is not supported on this record.

provider codex_cli · model gpt-5.4 · confidence 81%