Republican members of the Colorado House are demanding that Secretary of State Jena Griswold resign after passwords to the state’s voting system were posted to the office’s website.
Minority Leader Rose Pugliese said in a statement, “Secretary of State Jena Griswold’s reckless disregard for professional standards and consistent lack of transparency has threatened trust in our democratic system by causing doubt in the security of our election process. Her office has mailed postcards to 30,000 noncitizens illegally encouraging them to register to vote, falsely informed other voters that they had not voted when they already had, and now has disclosed election system passwords on the internet.”
She added, “While I have the utmost trust in the integrity of our county clerks, who actually oversee the counting of votes, I have no trust that Secretary Griswold is capable of leading our election system. Enough of her incompetence; it is time for her to resign. The people of Colorado deserve better.”
An Excel spreadsheet containing the passwords was posted to the Secretary of State’s website under a hidden tab, and viewers only needed to click “unhide” to view them.
The passwords are used to configure the system settings.
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