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Oops! Colorado Secretary of State’s Office Leaks Voting Passwords Online


Well, folks, it seems the Colorado Secretary of State’s Office posted something curious.

They accidentally posted a document on their website that contained several passwords for voting systems.

Classic move!

It turns out that a mass email featuring these passwords.

All they had to do was click ‘unhide’ on an Excel file downloaded from the state’s site. Easy peasy.

Looks like jewish Secretary of State Jena Griswold has some explaining.

This was probably just a mistake, right?

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These things happen all the time.

RT reports:

The Colorado Secretary of State’s Office accidentally posted a document on its website that contained multiple voting system passwords, the authorities of the US state admitted on Tuesday.

According to 9News, Colorado Republican Vice Chair Hope Scheppelman shared a file containing a hidden tab in a mass email, which also included an affidavit from an unnamed person who claims to have downloaded the Excel file from the state secretary’s website and was able to read the hidden tab after simply clicking ‘unhide.’

The Colorado Secretary of State’s office said it was aware of the breach, and took immediate action to fix it, as well as informed the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. “The spreadsheet located on the Department’s website improperly included a hidden tab including partial passwords to certain components of Colorado voting systems,” officials said.

“This does not pose an immediate security threat to Colorado’s elections, nor will it impact how ballots are counted,” spokesman Jack Todd said in a press release.

The passwords were just one layer of security that protects the state elections, the spokesman stressed. There are two unique passwords for every piece of election equipment, both of which can only be used with “physical in-person access” to a voting system. The systems themselves are protected by video surveillance and require ID badges to access, Todd said. “It is a felony to access voting equipment without authorization,” he added.

Jena Griswold sure likes to get involved with ballots.

Nothing to see here.

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She has a track record of meddling with ballots…

Great question, Spiffy. We have some ideas to why.



 

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