Tag: Jena Griswold
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Colorado joins multi-state call to keep ICE away from polling locations
Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold announced Monday that the state has formally requested written confirmation from the Department of Homeland Security that ICE agents will not be stationed at polling locations during the 2026 election cycle, according to a news release. The letter comes a week after Kristi Noem, the former Secretary of Homeland…
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In Tina Peters appeal, judges telegraph some degree of reversal | ANALYSIS
Former Mesa County clerk Tina Peters seems poised to walk away from the state’s Court of Appeals with her criminal convictions largely intact, even as a three-judge appellate panel raised concerns about her sentence and one specific conviction. Peters, a Republican who served one term following her 2018 election, is serving a roughly nine-year prison…
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Colorado podcaster who has called for political foes to be executed joins GOP primary for governor
Joe Oltmann, the conservative Colorado podcaster who has repeatedly called for Colorado’s top elected officials to be executed and whose uncorroborated claims that the 2020 election was rigged spawned multiple defamation lawsuits, declared his candidacy for the Republican nomination for governor last week. Oltmann joins a crowded field of Republicans seeking to take over from…
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Trump pardons Tina Peters, but Colorado officials say he can’t reverse state convictions | TRAIL MIX
President Donald Trump said late on Dec. 11 that he had issued a pardon for Tina Peters, the former Mesa County clerk convicted of orchestrating a scheme to breach secure election equipment, though Colorado officials and legal experts immediately countered that the president’s broad pardon powers don’t extend to state-level crimes like those committed by…
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DOJ sues Colorado Secretary of State for refusing to release voter information
The U.S. Department of Justice has filed a lawsuit against Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold after she refused to provide the agency with certain voter information. Last week, the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division asked Griswold’s office to provide unredacted voter data, including full names, dates of birth, residential addresses, and driver’s license numbers. Federal…
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Using AI analysis, campaign finance complaints lodged against Jena Griswold, Phil Weiser
Using artificial intelligence as analytical tool, a resident of Longmont has filed complaints against two prominent Colorado Democrats, alleging multiple campaign finance violations. The complaints are among a growing number of campaign finance allegations against individuals running for some of Colorado’s top jobs. What’s unique with the complaints is the use of AI as a…
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Jena Griswold’s office violated policy leading to voting equipment passwords leak, but mistake was ‘unintentional’
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A third-party investigation into how voting equipment passwords were posted online concluded that the Secretary of State’s Office failed to review documents before posting them online but that the mistake was “unintentional.” “A series of inadvertent and unforeseen events led to the public disclosure of the BIOS Passwords,” the investigator, Baird Quinn, LLC, concluded. “However,…
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Jared Polis, Jena Griswold: Passwords updated, voting machines verified
Gov. Jared Polis and Secretary of State Jena Griswold on Friday said voting machine passwords, which were posted online, have been updated and the security of the equipment has been verified. The two Democratic officials said that work was completed on Thursday evening, the day after Donald Trump’s presidential campaign demanded that Griswold’s office take…
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Colorado secretary of state website ‘improperly included’ voting system passwords
The Colorado secretary of state issued a statement Tuesday confirming that the partial passwords to its voting system were live on its website for a time. While the office assured Colorado voters that the information was “improperly included,” it reported the matter to the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, which is working to remedy the…
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Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold reacts to Trump’s speech in Aurora, discusses election security in press conference
Secretary of State Jena Griswold spoke to reporters following former President Donald Trump’s speech at the Gaylord Rockies Resort in Aurora Friday. “Our elections are the safest, most secure, and most accessible in the nation today,” Griswold said. Trump traveled to Colorado to push racist conspiracies “and to lie, lie, lie, lie,” she said. “The…