Colorado’s Democratic Secretary of State ordered a Republican county clerk who has amplified Donald Trump’s demands for “audits” of elections to return a copy he says he made of his county’s election system, a potential breach of security.
Just reached Elbert County Clerk Dallas Schroeder on the phone. He did not want to talk about the potential security breach that the @COSecofState has questions about. I asked if he thinks he did anything wrong.
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Schroeder is now the second Colorado clerk who has gotten in hot water over accusations of election security breaches. Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters, also a Republican, is under state and federal investigation for an alleged security breach of the election system there. A judge already barred Peters, who appeared at a meeting of Trump-supporting election conspiracy theorists, from running the county’s 2021 contest. Griswold earlier this month sued to block Peters from running this year’s election.