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Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold on voting system password breach
The Colorado Secretary of State’s Office inadvertently posted a spreadsheet to its website with a hidden tab that included voting system passwords. In a statement to 9NEWS, a spokesperson for the Colorado Secretary of State’s Office said that “the Department is working to remedy this situation where necessary.” 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 Colorado Secretary of State’s Office inadvertently posted a spreadsheet to its website with a hidden tab that included voting system passwords.” …The only reason you have voting systems passwords is to allow access by way of the internet into each machine. so much for the “not connected to the internet crowd”
The name on the affidavit was blacked out in the Republican Party email. The passwords that were in the hidden tab are known as BIOS passwords and are one part of the security process for Colorado’s voting machines.
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