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Elizabeth Urban

Colorado Voting Machine Passwords Posted Online by State Employee: 'The Public Deserves to Know What Happened'

An affidavit included in a mass email from Colorado Republican Party Vice Chair Hope Scheppelman claimed that an unidentified person downloaded a spreadsheet from the Secretary of State's website, which included the passwords. (Credit: Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)

Passwords to Colorado's voting machines have reportedly been online for months after state officials said that they were published accidentally.

The discovery was shared in a mass email Tuesday from Colorado Republican Party Vice Chair Hope Scheppelman. An affidavit included in the email claimed that an unidentified person downloaded a spreadsheet from the Secretary of State's website, which included the passwords, as reported by KUSA.

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