DENVER — The Denver district attorney said Friday she will not file criminal charges in connection with passwords that “were published in error” on the Colorado Secretary of State website earlier this year.
Denver District Attorney Beth McCann said the decision is the result of a seven-week investigation. The possible violations included two Colorado statutes: C.R.S. 1-13-708(2), which concerns the publication of passwords related to a voting system, and C.R.S. 18-8-405(1), which concerns second degree official misconduct, the district attorney’s office said in an afternoon press release.
On Oct. 29, the Colorado Department of State confirmed that a spreadsheet containing partial passwords to components of Colorado’s voting system was published on the Secretary of State’s website for an unknown period of time. In a statement that day, the Department of State said, “This does not pose an immediate security threat to Colorado’s elections, nor will it impact how ballots are counted.”
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