Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold has characterized the leak as an accident, adding that it did not pose an “immediate” security threat, which the Colorado County Clerks Association concurred with. The passwords are only one part of a layered ...

The Colorado Secretary of State’s Office has hired a new law firm to investigate how passwords to Colorado’s voting machines ended up online. Attorneys Beth Quinn and J. Mark Baird with the law firm Baird Quinn LLC will look into the security breach.

The Denver district attorney has launched an investigation into how a spreadsheet of voting system passwords ended up on the Colorado secretary of state’s website earlier this year.

Secretary Jena Griswold said she'd hired an outside law firm to look into the incident. That won't satisfy her critics.

Last month, the Colorado Secretary of State’s Office inadvertently posted a spreadsheet to its website with a hidden tab that included voting system passwords.

The 2nd Judicial District Attorney's Office in Denver is investigating alleged violations of elections laws following the publication of voting machine passwords by the Colorado Secretary of State's Office during the run-up to the Nov.