Exclusive-Former top Republican lawmaker in Colorado received leak of voting data

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Source: Reuters

By Alexandra Ulmer

(Reuters) - A former Republican minority leader of the Colorado legislature is among the recipients of a trove of sensitive voting data leaked by a county official working with an activist seeking to prove President Donald Trump's false stolen-election claims, the secretary of state's office told Reuters on Monday.

The revelation indicates the breach of ballot data in Elbert County was wider than previously understood. The case, now being investigated by the Colorado secretary of state, is one of at least nine unauthorized attempts to access voting-system data around the United States, at least eight of which involved Republican officials or activists seeking evidence to delegitimize Democratic President Joe Biden's election victory.

The clerk in Elbert County, Dallas Schroeder, previously testified that he copied voting data from the county's election server onto two hard drives and gave the drives to two individuals, both of them lawyers. Schroeder, responding to the investigation and a related lawsuit by the secretary of state, disclosed that one of the recipients was his own attorney, John Case, and refused to name the other lawyer.

But Schroeder actually gave the data to two other lawyers, in addition to Case, according to secretary of state's spokesperson Annie Orloff. Affidavits by the two attorneys were expected to be released on Monday.


Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/exclusive-former-top-republican-lawmaker-in-colorado-received-leak-of-voting-data/ar-AAXkM0P?li=BBnb7Kz

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Of course he's a Republican.

[jimfields33]

1. Every department is leaking.

Eventually nothing will be kept under wraps.

[CrispyQ]

2. Is the DOJ investigating, too, or do they wait until a SOS asks them to get involved? -nt

[KS Toronado]

3. Good question

Kinda ties in with Jan 6th & "The Big Lie" & attempting to steal an election.
Seems like the DOJ should be involved.

[CrispyQ]

6. Agreed, but they let the Cyber Ninjas have free rein with ballots. Is this much different?

It's beyond frustrating.

IMO, those attorneys should lose their license to practice.

[BumRushDaShow]

7. In general, "elections" are up to the states

with only certain criteria that might relate to federal elections.

The earlier Voting Rights Act of 1965 was narrow in its focus regarding addressing the issue of discrimination and not other stuff like "state election audits".

The last "voting" law that passed was H.R.3295 - Help America Vote Act of 2002 and that required some limited "standardization" after the "hanging chad" fiasco (e.g., getting rid of punch card voting along with the old lever machines that I liked, etc.), and required some kind of way to audit through a paper trail, plus it required bilingual (or multilingual) ballots, and accommodations for the disabled to conform with the ADA.

But since then, more issues popped up, plus the SCOTUS neutered some parts of the VRA of 1965 (killing Sect.4 that made Sect. 5 moot and recently weakening Sect. 2), and this is why the couple new Voting Rights bills were drafted and passed by the House to fill in some of the latest "gaps" that have manifested -

H.R.1 - For the People Act of 2021

H.R.4 - John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act of 2021

and both were promptly stalled in the Senate.

Otherwise there is not much for DOJ to "investigate".

[jaxexpat]

9. I hear that!

The "Vote-a-Matic" voting booth should have been ruled the national standard and poor maintenance by election officials, a felony. That would have eliminated ALL the unnecessary controversy. Nipped, nipped in the bud.

[BumRushDaShow]

10. I miss this type of machine

You pull a big lever to close the curtains, you get the satisfying "clicks" when you throw the little levers by each name, and when you throw the big lever again, your vote gets "recorded", and the curtains swing open!



We had moved to this after HAVA was passed post-2002 (which wasn't too bad) -



But the LATEST "touch screen" crap? I tried it ONCE when it was first implemented for the general election in 2019. Couldn't even "see" clearly what printed (it was too damn dark and there no back-lighting nor a light over the chute with the ballot) nor could I "touch" my ballot (where the ballot uses thermal paper that will eventually fade one day) as it never comes out of the chute until you're done voting, where it gets sucked all the way in.

*SCREAM*

A month later, the state passed the infamous "Act-77" allowing "no-excuse mail-in voting" and from that point on, that is all I have done (2020 primary/general, 2021 primary/general, and 2022 primary).

[jaxexpat]

11. ".....your vote gets "recorded", and the curtains swing open!"

I knew a guy once who said, "if you're min a restaurant that you don't trust the chef. Order a cheese sandwich. Nobody can fuck up a cheese sandwich."

So, this perfect cheese sandwich of a machine has been replaced by all those inherently corruptible monstrosities. The vote business is where you get screwed by stupid salesmen masquerading as politicians..

[BumRushDaShow]

12. And those new-fangled machines cost

$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

This is how I have voted the last 5 times -





I did the "drop box" the first time and just mailed it the last 4 times.

[ret5hd]

15. Have you seen Florida's latest machine???

[BumRushDaShow]

16. Perfect!

(I didn't even know that they did videos )

[CrispyQ]

13. I read that federal election laws were violated in regards to ballot handling

& that the chain of custody was broken during the Cyber Ninja "audit." Apparently the DOJ issued a letter stating they were concerned ballots weren't being safeguarded & also that there were violations of the 1965 Voting Rights Act. IDK, seems like that could have been worth an investigation?

https://www.azmirror.com/2021/05/06/arizona-audit-ignores-federal-law-on-election-records/

https://www.azmirror.com/2021/05/05/justice-department-raises-concerns-with-audit/

Last week it was revealed that the Cyber Ninjas estimated their "audit" would cost approx $150K-250K but ended up costing $8.8 million. That's a helluva grift & I gotta believe there are others out there looking to do a similar grift in the next elections. When Cyber Ninja events start happening all over the country, maybe we'll wish we'd nipped this crap in the bud.

[BumRushDaShow]

14. DOJ sent "letters"

(or as DU calls them, "sternly worded letters" ) and directed that the state answer questions regarding the handling of the equipment and ballots. This investigatory stage happened a year ago.

A couple months later, DOJ issued "guidance" and warnings to other states about avoiding doing what AZ might have been doing -

DOJ Warns States Not To Pursue Their Own Arizona-Style Election Audits

Alison Durkee Forbes Staff
Jul 28, 2021,01:24pm EDT


The DOJ’s new guidance document explicitly warns against audits in which election officials are forced to turn over materials like ballots or voting machines to state lawmakers or third parties—as in Arizona, whose audit is being run by the private company Cyber Ninjas.

Federal law requires state and local election officials to retain federal election records for at least 22 months after an election, and the DOJ said it interprets the Civil Rights Act to mean “elections records [must] ‘be retained either physically by election officials themselves, or under their direct administrative supervision.’”

Violating federal law by turning over election materials could be punishable through fines of up to $1,000 or a prison sentence of up to one year. While some audits could comply with state law, the DOJ said, “federal law imposes additional constraints with which every jurisdiction must comply.”

(snip)

https://www.forbes.com/sites/alisondurkee/2021/07/28/doj-warns-states-not-to-pursue-their-own-arizona-style-election-audits/?sh=24cb1dcb3459

Meanwhile here in PA, we took care of that mess when one of the Cyber Ninja bullshit subcontractors were "handed" election equipment/info from a rural county with the highest percentage of 45-voters, and the PA SOS immediately decertified their equipment -

Pennsylvania decertifies county’s voting system after ‘audit’

By Associated Press, Marc Levy and Mark Scolforo July 21, 2021


Pennsylvania’s top election official has decertified the voting machines of a small southern county that disclosed that it had agreed to requests by local Republican lawmakers and allowed a software firm to inspect the machines as part of an “audit” after the 2020 presidential election.

The action by Acting Secretary of State Veronica Degraffenreid almost certainly means that Fulton County will have to buy new voting machines or, as it did in the May primary election, lease new ones.

Degraffenreid notified Fulton County officials in a letter Wednesday that the inspection by a firm with “no knowledge or expertise in election technology” violated state law.

“I have no other choice but to decertify the use of Fulton County’s leased Dominion Democracy Suite 5.5A voting system last used in the November 2020 election,” Degraffenreid wrote.

(snip)

https://whyy.org/articles/pennsylvania-decertifies-countys-voting-system-after-audit/

Here was the state's notice to the county -

Department of State Decertifies Fulton County’s Voting System

07/21/2021

​Harrisburg, PA – Acting Secretary of State Veronica W. Degraffenreid has informed the Fulton County Board of Elections that she has decertified the county's voting system for future elections because it was subjected to a post-election review by a third party in violation of Pennsylvania's Election Code.

"I have a statutory obligation to examine, evaluate and certify electronic voting systems," Secretary Degraffenreid said in a July 20, 2021, letter to the county. "These reviews include verifying that the voting system conforms to federal and state law and any regulations or standards regarding confidentiality, security, accuracy, safety, reliability, usability, accessibility, durability, resiliency, and auditability."

Earlier this year, Fulton County officials allowed Wake TSI, a company with no knowledge or expertise in election technology, to access certain key components of its certified system, including the county's election database, results files, and Windows systems logs. The county officials also allowed the company to use a system imaging tool to take complete hard drive images of these computers and other digital equipment.

"These actions were taken in a manner that was not transparent," the Secretary said in her letter. "As a result of the access granted to Wake TSI, Fulton County's certified system has been compromised and neither Fulton County, the vendor, Dominion Voting Systems, nor the Department of State can verify that the impacted components of Fulton County's leased voting system are safe to use in future elections."

The third-party access to Fulton County's voting system undermined the chain of custody requirements and strict access limitations necessary to prevent both intentional and inadvertent tampering with electronic voting systems. The unauthorized access prevents the vendor from affirming that the system continues to meet state and federal certification standards.

MEDIA CONTACT: Wanda Murren, 717-783-1621

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This is probably what AZ should have done but this is the difference between having a Democratic governor and SOS like we have here in PA, and Republican ones, like AZ.

[onecaliberal]

8. Nah.. it's just the good ole boys doing what they do....

In case it's not obvious.

[bringthePaine]

4. time for jail - they're both fucking guilty

[ancianita]

5. If ANY data hasn't been corrupted or altered, and still shows a Trump win, ANY of the "unauthorized"

would have held press conferences by now. If leaks happen to SCOTUS, they would surely happen to Biden.

So these eight are up to no good.
This is about either repub hysterics or repub attempts to change election data and not get caught.

It might seem obvious, but some obvious things must be said.