LP CO is suing the Colorado SOS over its hypocrisy in prosecuting election workers like Tina Peters for inadvertantly exposing an election password, while SOS Griswold has just admitted to exposing lots of such passwords to the public, without suffering similar repercussions:
…DENVER — A judge has rejected a petition filed by the Libertarian Party of Colorado against Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold after a leak of partial passwords associated with the state’s voting system.
On Oct. 29, the Colorado Department of State confirmed that an employee mistakenly included partial passwords for voting systems in a spreadsheet that anyone could download from her office’s website. The Colorado Republican Party issued a release about this on Oct. 30. Their release came about a week after Griswold said her office was informed about the leak. It’s not clear why her office did not immediately notify the public.
Colorado Republican Party Chair Dave Williams said a “whistleblower” informed the party about the partial passwords leak. Griswold declined to tell Denver7 who informed her office.
Griswold said the partial leak never posed an immediate threat to Colorado’s elections…”In response to notice of the disclosed BIOS passwords, Respondents took down the subject worksheet and put into place a remediation protocol, after an investigation was conducted as to the disclosure of the BIOS passwords,” the ruling reads. “The remediation protocol was implemented and within seven days, the BIOS passwords on the affected voting systems were changed and the affected equipment was examined and verified that it was not compromised.” The lawsuit sought to require all ballots to be hand-counted. James Wiley with the Libertarian Party of Colorado said they plan to appeal. Read More