election security
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Elbert County Clerk and Recorder admits copying election hard drives, says it’s his duty to ‘preserve’ 2020 records
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Dallas Schroeder, the Republican Clerk and Recorder for Elbert County, made copies of two hard drives of the county’s Dominion Voting Systems equipment, received instructions from two non-election staffers on how to do so, and admitted giving a copy to two private attorneys, who included his personal counsel. Schroeder’s admission came in response to a…
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"War games, election style": Colo. cybersecurity training to attract national, local officials
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“Think of it as war games, election style.” That’s how the Secretary of State’s Office is branding a training exercise south of Denver next week that will attract national leaders in elections and cybersecurity. Secretary of State Wayne Williams plans to preside over the Sept. 6 event in Englewood, set to be attended by representatives…
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INSIGHTS | Colorado beat the Russians at its election games
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When Wayne Williams took office in 2015, secretaries of state didn’t talk much about hackers or, if at all, Russians. Now those topics dominate discussions among the sharpest minds and deepest worriers about the security of our elections. Colorado became a tough nut to crack for election meddlers even before the current concerns about the…
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Joe Biden throws weight behind secretary of state hopeful Jena Griswold
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Former Vice President Joe Biden on Tuesday endorsed Jena Griswold, the Democratic nominee for secretary of state, saying the attorney “understands the importance of making sure every vote counts.” “Now more than ever, we need leaders who are committed to protecting our democratic institutions and the integrity of our elections,” Biden said in a statement.…
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Behind the Scenes: Meet ‘county-facer’ in chief Dwight Shellman
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Dwight Shellman’s job title – county support manager for the Elections Division at the Colorado Secretary of State’s Office – sounds wonkish enough to keep him toiling in the trenches of technocratic obscurity for the rest of his life. Yet, there he was, right in the middle of a national news report not long ago…
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Hackers beware: Colorado’s clerks will be watching — and auditing — election results
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Denverite’s Adrian Garcia reports this week that Colorado Secretary of State Wayne Williams is touting post-election audits as a new, enhanced safeguard against election manipulation in Colorado: The Colorado Secretary of State’s Office has been traveling to different counties this year to train clerks how to conduct the audit, office spokeswoman Lynn Bartels said Monday.…
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Officials: Colorado’s election infrastructure not among 39 states’ reportedly hit by Russian cyber attack
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Colorado’s computerized voter system doesn’t appear to have been targeted by Russian hackers who penetrated systems in two states last summer and reportedly tried to access files in dozens of other states before last year’s election, officials with the Colorado secretary of state’s office said Tuesday. While the Colorado system is subject to hundreds of…
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? Denver says it’s got election security under control
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The integrity of the nation’s voting system has been questioned like never before, led by Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, but the director of elections in the Denver Elections Division told reporters during a media tour Friday, Oct. 28, that the system can be trusted and is more secure than polling place election systems. Amber…
