Election Security Under Scrutiny as BIOS Password Breach Sparks Lawsuit

On November 8, 2024, Kim Monson explores critical election security concerns in a rebroadcast of her November 4th pre-election show. With Election Day looming, the program examines the Colorado Secretary of State’s BIOS password breach, signature verification vulnerabilities in mail-in ballots, the Libertarian Party’s lawsuit demanding hand-counted paper ballots, and a Denver ballot measure threatening to close an employee-owned lamb processing plant. Property Rights and the Attack on Colorado Agriculture Start listening at 16:37 – Hour 1 Bonnie Brown, Executive Director of the Colorado Wool Growers Association, exposes the deceptive tactics behind Denver’s Ballot Initiative 309. The measure, pushed by Pro Animal Future activists, seeks to close Superior Farms, a lamb processing plant employing 160 workers who have repeatedly stated they value their jobs. Brown reveals that the organization’s so-called whistleblower never actually worked for Superior Farms, having been employed at a different facility in the 1980s, before Superior even purchased the plant in 1996. The initiative represents a broader assault on livestock production, Brown warns, with the lamb industry serving as a testing ground before activists target beef producers. Temple Grandin, the world-renowned livestock handling expert, reviewed undercover footage and found no violations. Brown emphasizes that sheep grazing provides environmental benefits including weed control, wildfire prevention through fuel load reduction, and carbon sequestration. “309 is a solution in search of a problem. And since the problem doesn’t exist, Pro Animal Future has fabricated one to prop up their ban, which their end game is to stop livestock production in the United States.” Bonnie Brown, Executive Director, Colorado Wool Growers Association The Fragile Foundation of Mail-in Ballot Security Start listening at 32:09 – Hour 1 Robert Cooper sounds the alarm on signature verification, the sole method validating voter identity in Colorado’s mail-in voting system. Cooper explains that once a signature is verified and the envelope opened, votes cannot be pulled back, making the process critically important. Yet no audit standards exist for this verification, and significant variance in rejection rates across counties, ranging from 0.6 percent to 2.2 percent, suggests inconsistent application of standards. Cooper points to Mesa County, where investigators identified 12 fraudulent ballots but signature verification caught only 9, missing 3 that were counted. The signature judges receive approximately two hours of training, while forensic certification for court testimony typically requires two to three years. Financial institutions abandoned signature-only verification decades ago due to unreliability, yet Colorado’s entire mail-in voting system depends on it. “The public needs to understand that the entire voter ID verification of a mail-in voting system is based on signature verification, and banks don’t use that as the only source.” Robert Cooper, Election Integrity Researcher Voting Machine Vulnerabilities and the BIOS Password Crisis Start listening at 69:12 – Hour 2 Retired Air Force Colonel Shawn Smith, a technology expert with Cause of America, explains why the BIOS password breach represents a severe security failure. Secretary of State Jenna Griswold’s claim that two passwords protect the systems is misleading, Smith argues, as having the...