Richard Patton, a 31-year-old from Pueblo, has been charged with tampering with a voting machine — a class 5 felony under state law — and cybercrime, which is a misdemeanor.
... Late on Colorado's primary Election Day, election workers at the Voter Service and Polling Center in the Pueblo Clerk's Office in Pueblo heard noises coming from a voting booth across the room, according to a senior official with the Colorado secretary of state's office. When an election judge went to the booth to investigate and to clean the machine, after a voter had left a booth, in accordance with regular protocol, there was an error message on the screen reading, "
USB device change detected. Please call a poll worker for assistance."
... Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold ... "The threats are ongoing," Griswald told CBS News. "They've been ongoing against me since June of 2021... I got an uptick in threats over the last couple of weeks." She estimates that her office has made
thousands of referrals to the Justice Department since the 2020 election. ... The lies that the former president and people aligned with him continue to push out are dangerous — they are leading to political violence."
"The 'big lie' is why I have a county working behind bulletproof glass," Griswold continued, referencing new security measures in Salida, the county seat of Chaffee County. "It's the reason that the man who threatened my life is now serving 18 months in prison." '
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