Colorado Libertarians sue Secretary of State Jena Griswold over leak of voting equipment passwords

DENVER — The Colorado Libertarian Party sued Secretary of State Jena Griswold and her chief deputy on Friday in Denver, asking the court to decommission voting equipment and order a hand count of ballots in counties affected by the recently discovered online disclosure of hundreds of election equipment passwords.

Hannah Goodman, the minor party’s state chair, and James Wiley, the Libertarian nominee in the 3rd Congressional District, argue in a lawsuit filed in Denver District Court that Griswold and Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Beall breached their public duties with the leak and their responses to it.

Earlier the same day, Griswold and Gov. Jared Polis announced that all of the leaked passwords had been updated by Thursday evening and that state personnel had verified the affected voting machines are secure.

The two officials, both Democrats, reiterated in a statement that the appearance of the voting equipment passwords in a spreadsheet posted online “did not pose a security threat to Colorado’s elections” and won’t affect how ballots cast in next week’s election are counted.

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