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On Tuesday, the Colorado GOP released a press release to notify the public of a potential breach of Colorado election security. The allegations follow the Secretary's admission last week of a ballot fraud scheme in Mesa County. In that scheme, fake votes will count after having passed security checks prior to being separated from their ballots.
This latest potential breach is presumptively more widespread. From the press GOP release:
“According to an affidavit sent to the Republican Party of Colorado, Colorado Secretary of State, Jena Griswold, shared a file on her website that contained over 600 BIOS passwords for voting system components in 63 of the state’s 64 counties. On Thursday, October 24, 2024, those BIOS passwords were discretely removed by an unnamed official…The passwords were not encrypted or otherwise protected – this means they were available for public consumption. The file appears to have been posted at least since August; the amended version of the file was reposted last Thursday. BIOS passwords are highly confidential, allowing broad access for knowledgeable users to fundamentally manipulate systems and data and to remove any trace of doing so.”
The press release was accompanied by a letter from the Colorado GOP to the Colorado Secretary of State's Office as well as a copy of the redacted affidavit, provided below.
Colorado voters will remember back in August 2021, when Tina Peters’ office was raided for allegedly leaking passwords online – ostensibly the same passwords that, according to the affidavit, were posted on the Secretary’s website from August 8, 2024 through October 24, 2024. Notably, during the Peters’ trial earlier this year, leaking stolen passwords was neither among the charges, nor a part of the prosecution's benefit theory. Peters is currently incarcerated in Mesa County.
From 9News at the time of the 2021 password breach, “Griswold said there was no risk to any state election, but the Mesa County voting machines could be decertified and would need to be recertified prior to the next election.”
Indeed, the machines were decertified, and Mesa County taxpayers undertook the cost. The allegations in the affidavit impact election equipment in 63 of 64 Colorado counties. Will all of this equipment require decertification?
If it is confirmed that there were Bios Passwords accessible on the Secretary's website, were these passwords active at the time they were public? What was the triggering event for removing the passwords? Did something happen? Who removed the passwords?
These are important questions considering we are just one week away from an important election – one in which the Secretary has already displayed undeniable political bias. The Secretary’s Office has yet to address the Colorado GOP’s letter or the attached affidavit.
This story is developing.
Read the Press Release, Letter, and Affidavit below.
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