(EL PASO COUNTY, Colo.) — On Friday, Nov. 1, El Paso County Clerk and Recorder Steve Schleiker requested Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold’s resignation after partial passwords for the state’s voting system were posted online.
“I am writing to formally request your resignation as Colorado Secretary of State due to significant concerns over election integrity and incidents that have occurred during your tenure,” Schleiker said in the letter to Griswold. “Your leadership has been marked by several high-profile security breaches that have compromised public trust in our electoral process”
Click here to read the full letter to Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold Download
The letter was sent four days after Colorado’s Republican Party accused the Secretary of State’s Office of “quietly” removing a spreadsheet from its website containing BIOS passwords for election systems in 63 of 64 counties. The GOP said more than 600 passwords were publicly accessible without encryption. BIOS, or Basic Input/Output System, enables a computer’s operating system to function.