JUST IN: Democratic Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold tried to cover up how her office leaked passwords for voting systems until she was called out.
This is the same person who:
-Sent voter registration mailers to 30,000 non-citizens -Messaged voters to vote after they already voted -Tried to remove Trump from the ballot
This woman is totally incompetent and must resign. You can reach her office here 303-894-2200
Secretary Griswold told me today that she had not decided whether to tell you, the public, about that password leak before she got called out on it publicly today.
I asked Secretary Griswold whether she takes responsibility for this election security breach in the same way that she has held others accountable.
And we discussed a string of errors by her office that can damage her confidence.
To be very clear, we do not see this as a full security threat to the state. This is not a security threat. You do frequent media interviews
warning of the insider threats to elections.
The US Department of Homeland Security defines an insider threat as somebody who uses authorized access,
wittingly
or unwittingly,
to do harm. Did the actions of your office pose an insider threat to elections?
No.
In 2021,
when Mesa County's voting system passwords leaked, your office said, quote, the public disclosure of the bios passwords for 1 or more components of Mesa County's voting system alone
constitutes a serious breach of voting system security protocols. By that standard, did your office commit a serious breach of voting system security protocols?
Well, to push back on you, Kyle, that sentence is in the press release, but there is a much bigger press release.
And part of that investigation in Mesa County
was
2 sets of passwords,
unauthorized access, stolen passwords,
and it was in a different time. Since 2021
and what happened in Mesa County,
our security has improved,
including the 24-7-hour
cameras, including the badge and access.
The law has been significantly strengthened since then. We have multiple layers in place to ensure situations
like Mesa County don't occur.
And that is not what is occurring here. This is not the first time
that your office has made mistakes
that have damaged voters' confidence in our elections. In 2022,
your office sent out mailers to 30, 000 non-citizens,
inviting them to register to vote. They, of course, are not eligible to register to vote. That same year, your office used Colorado's ballot tracking system to send messages to specific Coloradans encouraging them to vote, when in fact they had already
voted causing confusion that had to be cleaned up by the county clerks and now this leak of the voting system passwords.
Given your office's repeated errors that have damaged
confidence in our elections, which you say is paramount, Will you resign?
Absolutely not, Kyle.
And I just want to
you're unfairly characterizing
and leaving out some crucial information.
We came out immediately and said a postcard had been sent out to people who are ineligible.
The postcard clearly stated
that someone had to be a U.S. Citizen.
No 1 tried to register from that group of people. We were actively
tracking it.
And it became a situation
where there no 1 registered
into push back even further Kyle
Colorado is tied for number 1 in confidence in the country in our elections.
We have stood up to situations
time and time again to protect the right of Coloradans
going over and beyond what anybody would ask of civil servants in this office.
