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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Jesse Bedayn

Denver district attorney is investigating the leak of voting passwords in Colorado

Elections 2024 Colorado Security - (Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.)

The Denver district attorney's office has opened an investigation into the leak of voting system passwords that were posted on a state website for months leading up to the election and only taken down last month.

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 security system and can only be be used to access voting systems in person in secured and surveilled rooms.

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