Tag: Jena Griswold
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Jena Griswold’s office violated policy leading to voting equipment passwords leak, but mistake was ‘unintentional’
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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Plaintiffs struggle to prove intimidation in second day of Colorado voting rights trial
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The plaintiffs who are trying to prove an “election integrity” effort resulted in the illegal intimidation of Colorado voters ran into multiple stumbling blocks in federal court on Tuesday, including the aggressive questioning of the lone voter who claimed she was intimidated and the judge’s…
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Colorado’s economy on solid footing going into 2024, economists say
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Confidence in the economy fell heading into 2023 as prices soared and fears of a recession spread. But as the year ended, Colorado business leaders started to feel more optimistic about the economy, according to the Leeds Business Confidence Index from the University of Colorado…
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Colorado’s top election official targets AI-generated ‘deepfakes’ in elections
Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold is targeting AI-generated “disruptors” — such as “deepfakes” — as her office prepares for this year’s elections. Griswold unveiled her legislative priorities at a time of social anxiety over “deepfakes.” This week, pornographic “deepfake” images generated by artificial intelligence and sexualizing people without their consent hit the singer Taylor Swift,…
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Federal judge dismisses Tina Peters’ attempt to halt state prosecution for elections charges
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save A federal judge on Monday threw out an attempt by former Mesa County clerk Tina Peters to avoid standing trial for criminal charges related to election equipment tampering. Grand jurors indicted Peters, a Republican who unsuccessfully ran for secretary of state in 2022, on multiple…
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In their own words: Colorado justices argue for or against disqualifying Donald Trump
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Four of Colorado’s justices concluded on Tuesday that Donald Trump is ineligible for the presidency because he engaged in “insurrection” and that a rarely-invoked constitutional provision applies, indeed, to the president. Three justices dissented, alleging that the trial failed to afford the former president due…
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Colorado’s justices disqualified Trump from the ballot. Now what? | ANALYSIS
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Roughly a decade ago, the 10th Circuit Court entertained a case about a New York resident who wished to become America’s next president. The man wanted his name on Colorado’s presidential ballot for the 2012 election. But there was one problem. He was a naturalized…
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Trump disqualified from 2024 ballot, Colorado Supreme Court rules
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The Colorado Supreme Court took the unprecedented step of ordering Donald Trump removed from the 2024 presidential ballot on Tuesday, finding him constitutionally ineligible to hold future office. Trump’s campaign said it would appeal the decision to the U.S. Supreme Court. The Dec. 19, unsigned…
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Federal judge advances lawsuit against Griswold over non-disclosure of dead voter data
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save A federal judge has rejected an attempt by Secretary of State Jena Griswold to dismiss a lawsuit seeking to declare her office has withheld data about deceased voters in violation of the law. Colorado, and more than two dozen other states, are members of the Electronic…