Claim by Libs of TikTok: Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold personally leaked voting machine passwords and led an effort to remove Donald Trump from Colorado’s ballot.

Reasoning: The claim misrepresents Griswold’s involvement in both issues. While some passwords to Colorado’s voting machines were indeed accidentally posted online, it was the result of an error by a former employee—not Griswold herself. Griswold clarified that secretaries of state do not have direct access to voting machine passwords, and her office is actively updating the compromised passwords to secure the systems.

Furthermore, in a lawsuit filed by Colorado voters in 2023 to remove Trump from the primary ballot, Griswold was named as a defendant, not a plaintiff. She did not initiate the lawsuit but, after the case reached the U.S. Supreme Court, voiced her support for disqualifying Trump, citing the insurrection clause of the 14th Amendment. However, Griswold refrained from taking a stance while the case was still under state court review, indicating that such a decision should come from the court, not public opinion.

Fact or Fiction? Mostly Fiction. While it is true that voting machine passwords were unintentionally exposed and Griswold later supported removing Trump from the ballot, she was not directly responsible for the password error nor did she lead the lawsuit against Trump’s candidacy.