election system passwords mistakenly exposed on colorado secretary of states website    0/30/election-system-passwords-colo rado/ passwords to colorado voting equipment were inadvertently exposed when they were posted as part of a spreadsheet on the colorado secretary of states website. the leak of the information does not pose an immediate security threat to colorados elections, according to a press release from the office of secretary of state jena griswold, a democrat, who acknowledged the error tuesday. her office described the compromised information as partial passwords to certain components of colorado voting systems. the leak was revealed in a mass email from the colorado republican party, which said it learned of the leak after an unnamed person sent to the party an affidavit attesting to how the person discovered it. the person said in the affidavit they accessed three times starting in early august a spreadsheet posted on the secretary of states website that contains an inventory, which the secretary is required to maintain, of voting system components used throughout colorados 64 counties. the person said they were able to view passwords to many of the components by right-clicking the worksheet and selecting unhide, which provided access to other hidden worksheets. one of the hidden worksheets contained basic input output system  or bios  passwords for more than 700 election system components in every colorado county except las animas, the affidavit says. the errant document has since been pulled from the secretary of states website. **colorado secretary of state posts voting passwords online, state gop seeks legal relief   0/colorado-secretary-of-state-posts -voting-passwords-online-state-gop- seeks-legal-relief/ **video  griswold is the raging leftist sos who removed trump from colorado ballot   -0wi-f7m
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