Colorado Secretary of State Left Voting System Passwords Exposed Online for Months, Only Acted to Change Some Passwords After GOP Exposed Security Risk | 31 Oct 2024 | In a serious breach of election security, Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold's office left voting system passwords publicly accessible on the state's website for several months. Despite discovering the exposure on October 24, Griswold’s team only began to change the leaked passwords after the Colorado GOP brought the issue to light. For months, passwords necessary to access Colorado’s voting systems in 63 out of the state’s 64 counties were available on a hidden tab of a spreadsheet on the Secretary of State's website. The exposed information included one of the two passwords required to modify each county's voting machine configurations, with data listed by serial number, model, and county. [Will the country tolerate a second stolen presidential election?]