Calls for the resignation of Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold have grown louder in the wake of her leak of Colorado voting machine passwords to a public state website. 

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Passwords for all of Colorado’s counties, save one, were available for months in a spreadsheet on a state website. It came to light Griswold knew about the leak but only corrected the mistake five days later, after news of the breach had circulated in the press. 

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Some officials downplayed the leaks, saying the election remains secure because the passwords represented only one layer of security. 

However, the type of password conferred access to the machines’ system settings — but the Colorado GOP says the BIOS passwords are “highly confidential” and confer access to users in the know who could tamper with settings “without a trace.”

Griswold is part of a troubling pattern in Colorado that could either threaten election integrity, or harm Republican chances at the ballot box. 

Griswold and the Colorado Supreme Court attempted to remove former President Donald Trump from the ballot in Colorado earlier this year, but their efforts were thwarted when the U.S. Supreme Court upheld 14th Amendment provisions granting that authority to Congress, not to states.  

Griswold also kept Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. on the Colorado ballot, in spite of Kennedy’s efforts to get his name off, after his endorsement of Trump. The move is liable to keep Trump from picking up Kennedy votes in the wake of their joining forces. 

“Election-deniers” can hardly be blamed for questioning the integrity of US elections: 15 states don’t require an ID to vote; multiple states, including Ohio, have had to file lawsuits in order for secretaries of state to ensure non-citizens can vote, with Virginia’s victory in the Supreme Court the latest example; and now, Griswold’s leak of Dominion voting machines’ passwords comes on the heels of a nationwide “glitch” with the machines Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson has described as “frustrating.” 

Benson, who is rumored to be eyeing a run for governor, refused to purge Michigan voter rolls — though Michigan has more than 500,000 more registered voters than citizens.   


Could Americans be forgiven for wondering why glitches and irregularities, to say nothing of grievous password leaks and security threats, plague Democrat-run cities and states?  

The battle for secure elections is not without victories. The RNC investigated nearly 170,000 duplicate ballots in Michigan and has successfully confirmed the duplicates will not be counted

Trump maintains a lead in polling, potentially taking the popular vote in addition to most swing states. He leads Harris nationally by a half a point to as many as two points. 

Still, commentators are saying the only chance for election results to deliver on the will of the people is to make a Trump victory “too big to rig.”