. >> reporter: washington secretary of state kim wyman is in a unique position to know.ublican from a very blue state in charge of running elections for one of only five all vote by mail states in the country. washington's 18-day voting period is run entirely by ballots mailed to every registered voter and has been for the past nine years now the woman who runs it is getting calls for advice from other states she says they'll need systems to ensure ballots are not fraudulent, and new equipment to count hand-marked paper ballots. and fast. >> they need to be able to deal with the production they're going to have to put on and we need congress's help to do that. >> reporter: so far additional help does not look to be forthcoming and the clock is ticking nbc news has reached out to election officials in all 50 states to see what measures they've put in place, and what kind of resources they require. 33 states offered no excuse needed absentee ballots. while 17 others offer them with an excuse. at least ten of those states, however, are expanding absentee voting due to the c

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washington secretary of state kim wyman, a republican, runs the state's elections, which are entirelyby mail. >> postal service is the linchpin to all of this working in november. we have states that see, you know, 2% of their ballots cast by absentee ballot in a regular election and they're going to see an increase anywhere from 25% to 60% or 70% of their ballots returned by mail. it is essential that the post office is able to deal with that increased volume. >> reporter: elias agrees an underfunded postal service could become a chokehold on the ability to process mail-in ballots. >> we're on a collision course in the fall because the president is forcing us into a collision course. it's important to keep in mind the postal service should be funded and not politicized. >> reporter: president trump, who has himself voted by mail during his time in the white house, has taken aim at the president, citing a number of unsupported conspiracy theories in recent months, including tweeting without evidence mail-in voting has "tremendous potential for voter fraud and for whatever reason doesn