State officials said they were confident no one tampered with the machines after discovering the password breach and that votes would be safe. But they still scrambled to fix the leak, identified Oct. 24.

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,

The Colorado secretary of state left voting-machine passwords available on a spreadsheet posted to an official government website and only fixed the situation after the issue became public. Colorado secretary of state Jena Griswold (D),

Colorado officials said on Friday that the state’s elections are secure after a spreadsheet including a list of passwords used to access voting systems was inadvertently posted on the Secretary of State’s website.

Colorado leaders scrambled to shore up security around the state’s election voting machine system following a leak of partial passwords, deploying public safety and information technology teams to change passwords by the end of the day.

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

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

A week after a Colorado election breach became public, Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold revealed new details about how her office inadvertently posted voting equipment passwords online. Why it matters: The state's chief election official is doing damage control after the controversy exploded into the open and undermined trust in the state's election system.