The Colorado Secretary of State's Office released more information about the online password leak on Monday, the day before the election.

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The Colorado secretary of state issued a statement confirming that the partial passwords to its voting system were live on its website for a time.

Partial passwords to Colorado's voting systems were recently found to be exposed on the Colorado Department of State's website, the Colorado Secretary of State's office confirmed on Tuesday.

A one-day trial over whether election machines in 34 Colorado counties should be shut down took place in Denver District Court on Monday, a day before the general election. At issue was a massive leak of hundreds of election equipment passwords,

Colorado officials confirmed passwords to election equipment have been updated more than a week after partial passwords were posted online.

“There are two unique passwords for every election equipment component, which are kept in separate places and held by different parties. Passwords can only be used with physical in-person access to a voting system,” a spokesperson for the Colorado Secretary of State’s Office said.

Passwords to Colorado voting equipment were inadvertently exposed when they were posted as part of a spreadsheet on the Colorado secretary of state’s website. The leak of the information “does not pose an immediate security threat to Colorado’s elections,

The 4th Judicial District Attorney’s Office is reporting they are cooperating with the Denver District Attorney’s Office into an investigation involving the Colorado Secretary of State’s Office.

On Friday, the 4th Judicial District Attorney’s Office announced it received two signed affidavits alleging violations of CRS 1-13-708, or tampering with voting equipment. Allegations of election law violations require an investigation in accordance with state law.