Griswold rejects blame for leaked voter system passwords. Dems begin turning on her. ( Colorado )

By Free Republic | Created at 2024-11-01 19:11:12 | Updated at 2024-11-05 23:26:16 4 days ago

Griswold rejects blame for leaked voter system passwords. Dems begin turning on her. ( Colorado )
Colorado Peak Politics ^ | Oct 31, 2024

Posted on 11/01/2024 11:45:03 AM PDT by george76

Secretary of State Jena Griswold refuses to take responsibility for any of the numerous mishaps in her office including the posting of critical voter system passwords that remained online for months.

However, the civil servant served up by Griswold as the scapegoat she says is responsible for the leak no longer works in that office.

No, the buck does not stop with Griswold for the black eye on Colorado’s alleged golden election system.

She’s also blaming the Democrat-controlled state legislature for refusing to give her all the taxpayer dollars she demanded for personal security budget increases.

That won’t serve her well if Republicans pursue impeachment proceedings when the state legislature convenes in January.

Republican state House leaders are calling for her resignation, and key Colorado Democrats are already turning on her:

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With Griswold’s eyes on the governor’s mansion in the 2026 election, she might not have as much support among state legislators to be trashing them like that.

Denver 7 News reports this was a rookie mistake, which we would add is occurring in Griswold’s second term in office:

“This is cybersecurity 101,” said Indrajit Ray, a computer science professor at Colorado State University. “Nobody should write down clear text passwords in a file for everyone to read.”

Griswold’s refusal to take any responsibility herself was made clear in an interview with Colorado Public Radio.

Asked why this serious security infraction does not rise to the level of resignation, Griswold insisted that she is just a victim of mean Republicans.

“Is there a pattern of you falling short on this job?” Griswold was asked.

She insisted she has not, claiming some fantom title that Colorado tied in a contest for number one in “confidence of our elections.”

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Like that time, she banned her state employees from any official travel to Alabama because she disagreed with the state’s abortion law?

Her personal politics has interfered with the daily functions of the office of the Secretary of State, and is partly to blame for the office’s crumbling credibility.

And now we learn that she is trying to wriggle out of a state law against revealing these passwords online that Griswold herself crafted for the legislature.

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Of course, we’re seeing a double standard of what happened to now imprisoned former Mesa Clerk Tina Peters and what is not happening to Griswold.

Peters’ actions leading up to and after the leak of Mesa County passwords outside of her office were her ultimate undoing, yet it was at the hands of a politically vengeful Griswold who did in fact use the password leak to bring her down.

Just as the actions of Griswold’s office and Griswold herself have led to the public mistrust of her office and Colorado’s election system, which we would argue is a much more severe offense.

The conspiracy theories and voter mistrust in the state’s maligned and tarnished “gold system” can only be healed with Griswold’s removal of office.

Whether that’s politically feasible for Democrat remains to be seen.

But we’re guessing the Democrat-controlled legislature isn’t too thrilled that Griswold tried to throw them under the bus for the password leak scandal, which Kyle Clark and Marshall Zelinger of 9News are reporting on with unusual enthusiasm.

And it’s not just the leak of the passwords that were online for many months, but the coverup that’s a problem for Griswold.

She was warned about the problem a week before informing county clerks statewide of the password leak that could compromise their systems if a culprit gained inside access to their equipment.

Griswold suggested clerks had been notified in a timely manner, yet the Daily Sentinel reports:

Mesa County Clerk Bobbie Gross said she and the clerks in the other 63 counties of the state were informed of the situation when Griswold released a public statement on the matter Tuesday, hours after the state GOP released an initial statement disclosing what had occurred.

TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Colorado
KEYWORDS: colorado; griswold; jenagriswold; mailinballots; passwords; peters; tina; tinapeters

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1 posted on 11/01/2024 11:45:03 AM PDT by george76

Remember that this is a new law—one CO Sec of State championed at the legislature as a result of the Tina Peters case.

Is it irony or karma?

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CRS 1-13-708(2) : Any person who knowingly publishes or causes to be published passwords...relating to a voting system shall immediately have their authorized access revoked and is guilty of a class 5 felony... ~George Brauchler

2 posted on 11/01/2024 11:49:14 AM PDT by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)

3 posted on 11/01/2024 11:52:13 AM PDT by Who is John Galt? ("...mit Pulver und Blei, Die Gedanken sind frei!")

To: george76

Griswold should have been impeached after being smacked down by SCOTUS for taking Trump off the ballot. She is a Soros paid puppet.

To: DeplorablePaul

SHE SHOULD HAVE BEEN FIRED.

FIRED.

5 posted on 11/01/2024 11:55:27 AM PDT by Pearfect (Ou can't beat the competition lock-)

To: george76

Baaaaloney....those passwords were out because she or somebody wanted them out so that those with the secondary step passwords could cheat!

6 posted on 11/01/2024 12:00:51 PM PDT by mdmathis6 (A horrible historic indictment: Biden Democrats plunging the world into war to hide their crimes!)

To: george76

"Oft evil will shall evil mar.”

7 posted on 11/01/2024 12:01:36 PM PDT by Frank Drebin (And don't ever let me catch you guys in America!)

To: george76

All is forgiven Colorado flips red. Ahh, not really. Out with her.

8 posted on 11/01/2024 12:02:10 PM PDT by tflabo (Truth or tyranny)

To: Who is John Galt?

This thing is such an incredible integrity-free nitwit. In a more sane society she would be thrown out of her office, shamed and shunned. Resign today, you freak!

9 posted on 11/01/2024 12:02:50 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp??)

To: george76

She doesn’t even try to hide it with a plausible lie.

Griswold: “Those publicly posted passwords to not constitute a security violation...”

She must think the public believes every lie the media tells us, no matter how unlikely.

10 posted on 11/01/2024 12:03:42 PM PDT by ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton (You can vote totalitarians in but you can never vote them out...)

To: george76

I think she qualifies as causing to be published, and then aiding and abetting the illegal publishing of the passwords because she did not IMMEDIATELY correct the problem nor did she IMMEDIATELY notify all counties of the breach. She should IMMEDIATELY be removed from all access involving voting matters.

11 posted on 11/01/2024 12:06:57 PM PDT by Enterprise (These people have no honor, no belief, no poetry, no art, no humor, no patriotism.)

To: george76

12 posted on 11/01/2024 12:08:58 PM PDT by M Kehoe (Quid Pro Joe and the Ho have got to go. )

To: Enterprise

Exactly just as that new law stipulates. If nothing is done about this breach it will be a total farce.

13 posted on 11/01/2024 12:10:11 PM PDT by tflabo (Truth or tyranny)

To: mdmathis6

Former Secretary of State Wayne Williams said not making this breach public sooner was a “huge mistake” by Griswold... failure to notify county clerks about the BIOS passwords, complete bios, passwords, not partial passwords, were released and available and could have been used to compromise equipment.

Williams suggested that the state start by checking out election computers from each of the affected counties.. to determine whether the BIOS was changed.

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4274896/posts?page=11#11

14 posted on 11/01/2024 12:10:24 PM PDT by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)

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