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Colorado Secretary of State Left Voting System Passwords Exposed Online for Months

While the leak may not have compromised the integrity of the election, it serves as a harbinger of the state of U.S. elections in the modern era.

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The office of Colorado’s Democrat Secretary of State Jena Griswold left voting system passwords accessible to the public on the state’s website for multiple months.

Perhaps more egregiously, the passwords were only changed after the issue was made public, not after the issue was discovered.

“On Tuesday morning, Colorado Republican Party Vice Chair Hope Scheppelman shared the hidden tab discovery in a mass email, along with an affidavit from someone who claims they had downloaded the Excel file from the Colorado Secretary of State’s website and discovered the hidden tab by simply clicking ‘unhide’. The name on the affidavit was blacked out in the Republican Party email,” 9News said Tuesday.

The leaked passwords allegedly could not have been used to access the voting systems online, rather, someone with the passwords would need to physically access the devices in-person.

“There are two unique passwords for every election equipment component, which are kept in separate places and held by different parties. Passwords can only be used with physical in-person access to a voting system,” a spokesperson for the Colorado Secretary of State’s Office said, according to 9News on Tuesday.

While the leak may not have compromised the integrity of the election, it serves as a harbinger of the state of U.S. elections in the modern era.


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