The Federal Bureau of Investigation announced Tuesday that it is assisting Colorado law enforcement officials investigating the leak of usernames and passwords for the Mesa County voting machines on a QAnon-affiliated website, CNN reports.
Mesa County clerk Tina Peters, who appeared at last weeks cyber symposium hosted by Trump-supporting conspiracy theorist and foam magnate Mike Lindell, has been blamed for the leak. Peters reported gave access to the secure room where that information is kept to Gerald Wood, a non-employee of the election board. Reportedly, Wood and Peters, along with an unnamed person who was a high-level employee of the county elections office, accessed a secure room in the elections office and made copies of hard drives on elections equipment and polling machines. The files were kept on one of these devices, and the information was later included in videos posted by 8chan founder and man rumored to be the “real Q”, Ron Watkins, on his Telegram feed.
Peters appeared at Lindell’s conference last week, claiming she was being targeted as a scapegoat by Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold. However, employee key cards for Peters and the employee – and another apparently carried by Wood, even though he isn’t an employee -were used to open various secure doors in the elections office, records show.