Colorado Newsline: Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold told a panel of state lawmakers that her office delayed telling county clerks about a voting equipment password leak last month because she wanted to know more about the scope and impact of the situation first.

Instead, many clerks learned about the password breach when the state Republican Party publicized it and the media began reporting on it.

“The department was focused on determining the full scope of the issue and finalizing a plan for our technical and outreach strategy before sharing it, to avoid fueling the major disinformation environment that surrounds our elections (and) has real effects on election workers all across the state of Colorado,” Griswold told the Joint Budget Committee on Thursday. “I regret that the clerks learned about this issue from a party that was not us before we had completed our assessment.”

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