According to an oath that the Democratic vice head, Hope Scheppelman, sent to Jena Griswold, secretary of state, limited credentials for Colorado election systems have been unintentionally made available on the director of state’s website since late August.
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The Colorado Department of State is informed that a concealed tab that was poorly placed in a spreadsheet on the Department’s website contained partial passwords for various voting systems in Colorado. This does not cause an immediate safety hazard to Colorado’s votes, nor will it affect how votes are counted”, a declaration from the Secretary of State’s Office read.  ,
But no “immediate protection threat”. How about afterwards?
As we’ve seen in recent years, access to major aide’s email addresses can lead to all kinds of hackers nightmares. The hacking of Trump assistant Roger Stone’s contact account resulted in the disclosure of campaign vetting documents for JD Vance, the subsequent vice presidential nominee.
Griswold’s company claims the votes are safe.
However, there are several layers of protection to safeguard the integrity of Colorado’s election machines, even though the breach of login data is likely to erode trust and lead to disinformation.
Election systems are not connected to the internet, and they must be kept in designated areas with ID medals for access. They also have” 24/7 video camera saving on all vote equipment”, according to the secretary of state’s company.
What good are” secure rooms” and” 24/7 video cameras” when the hack, if it’s possible, will be conducted below the security radar?
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” There are two distinct passwords for every vote technology aspect, which are kept in individual places and held by various functions”, Jack Todd, a spokeswoman for Griswold, said in a statement. Passwords are only permitted when using a voting system in person.
So why do passwords even exist?  ,
 , Chris Krebs, the former director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency thinks the leak will have a “negligible” effect on security. The breach “highlights the crucial importance of the various compensating controls in place that protect our nation’s election systems.”
” While this is a very unfortunate leak that may serve as a source of uncertainty in some circles and feed into conspiracy theories in others, it still has little to no, if any, technical impact on Colorado’s systems,” Krebs continued.
If that’s true, why did the spokesman for the secretary of state say that the password leak posed no “immediate threat” to elections? It either poses a threat or it’s unavoidable. And if it was just a careless attempt to assure us that there was no danger, why not provide an answer right away?
Am I exaggerating the danger? Probably. These clowns, however, appear to have forgotten that the partial passwords had been exposed since August.  ,
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And we’re supposed to have confidence in their words of reassurance?
Meanwhile, Colorado Republicans want answers.
The Colorado Republican wrote to the Secretary of State’s Office,” It goes without saying how significant this is.” ” We can only imagine that, since the discovery last week, you and your staff have been working tirelessly to remedy these vulnerabilities”.
The fact that the Colorado Republican Party vice president had to address the security issue to the Democratic secretary only serves to highlight the variety of ways that ballots can be compromised.  ,
Stop telling Republicans to” sit down,”” shut up,” and accept the outcome of this election, whatever it may be. Questioning the ballot is not treason (yet ), nor is it a” threat to democracy”. Stop trying to silence Republicans and stop using their election-related inquiries as political weapons against them.  ,
