2nd Colorado clerk accused of election security breach

Source: Associated Press

2nd Colorado clerk accused of election security breach

By NICHOLAS RICCARDI
January 24, 2022

DENVER (AP) — Colorado’s Democratic Secretary of State on Monday ordered a Republican county clerk who has echoed former President Donald Trump’s demands for “audits” of elections to return a copy he says he made of his county’s election system, a potential breach of security.

Jena Griswold’s office said in a statement that Elbert County Clerk and Recorder Dallas Schroeder disclosed he made the copy of the system’s hard drive before Aug. 27. The disclosure came in an affidavit Schroeder filed in a lawsuit against Griswold’s office claiming weaknesses in election security. Schroeder last fall joined the lawsuit, filed by backers of Trump’s lies about widespread voter fraud in the 2020 presidential election.

The Secretary of State’s office said Schroeder made the copy of the election system before the system was rebuilt for the upcoming contest, so there’s no sign of “imminent or direct security risk to Colorado’s elections.” Still, Griswold is ordering Schroeder to sit for a deposition to determine the extent of any security breach.

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