Her Tuesday evening announcement came 48 hours before she and her Democratic rival were set to compete in the 4th District Democratic assembly Thursday night.

Calvarese threw her support to Navy veteran Eileen Laubacher, despite having sued the Colorado Democratic Party over her opponent’s eligibility to compete for a nomination to the June 30 primary ballot. Calvarese’s lawsuit last month.

“We’ve made the difficult decision to suspend my campaign to represent Colorado’s 4th Congressional District,” Calvarese’s campaign . “Congratulations to Eileen Laubacher and her team. I hope this carries through to a win in November.”

The two had competed for support in local caucuses and county assemblies ahead of the district assembly. Calvarese thanked her supporters and said only that “I’m sorry we fell short” in Tuesday. She also was trailing Laubacher in fundraising at the end of 2025.

In a statement Wednesday, Laubacher said Calvarese “has helped elevate the visibility of this race and engage people across the district in meaningful ways.”

“It����ap time to turn the corner and focus fully on what comes next and what matters most: defeating Lauren Boebert in November,” she said.

Laubacher, a longtime Republican and then unaffiliated voter, . She had the biggest haul of the final quarter of last year of any candidate running for Congress in Colorado, pulling down just over $2 million and bringing her contribution total in the election cycle to nearly $6.5 million.

She also had about five times the cash on hand that Calvarese had at year’s end.

Calvarese was chasing the Democratic nomination through the congressional assembly process only, while Laubacher had been competing both at the assembly and by submitting signatures to the Colorado Secretary of State’s Office in March to get on the primary ballot through the petition process.

Laubacher’s petition has from state elections officials. But she stands as the only Democratic candidate left in the race after contenders John Padora and Jenna Preston neither petitioned their way onto the ballot nor were listed as contenders at Thursday’s district assembly on the website.

Laubacher will have a tough road ahead in the 4th District, given its makeup as the most Republican-leaning district in the state. Calvarese lost to Boebert in 2024 by over 10 percentage points after Boebert switched over from Colorado’s 3rd Congressional District.

, the advocacy group backing , submitted nearly 169,000 signatures to petition the measure onto the ballot. The measure needed about 125,000 to qualify. The Colorado Secretary of State’s Office validated the petitions Monday.

The ballot measure seeks to define males and females based on their biological reproductive systems, and prohibit them from competing on K-12 and college sports teams that don’t comport with their sex assigned at birth. The measure would need a simple majority of votes this November to become law in 2027.

Earlier this month, Protect Kids Colorado secured a spot on the ballot for a measure to require life sentences for people convicted of child sex trafficking.

The group has also submitted signatures for a ballot measure that would prohibit gender-affirming surgery for transgender children and minors younger than 18. The Secretary of State’s Office has not yet ruled on that measure.

“What we have accomplished together is only the beginning,” Erin Lee, executive director of Protect Kids Colorado, said in a statement. “More than 3,000 Coloradans from every walk of life, collecting more than half a million signatures, stepped forward with their time, talent and treasure because protecting children is not a partisan issue; it����ap a moral one. Two qualified, one more to go!”

The proposed ban on transgender youth competing on teams that match their gender identity immediately drew outcry from , an LGBTQ+ rights organization. Mardi Moore, the group’s chief executive officer, said the measure “is not rooted in Colorado values,” and that the legislature has shot down .

“This is an attack on Colorado families modeled after national extremist efforts. Coloradans believe in fairness, freedom, and the right of every person to live their lives,” Moore said in a statement. “We will work tirelessly between now and November to make sure voters understand exactly what this effort is about. It����ap about bullying little kids and taking opportunities away from a handful of people.”

The for years has recognized the right of transgender athletes to play on sports teams that match their gender identities. Following a lawsuit, however, the organization agreed last year not to penalize school districts with transgender athlete bans.

In January, the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments in a case challenging the legality of bans on transgender girls and women playing school sports in Idaho and West Virginia. The justices states to enact such prohibitions.

But clues sprinkled in a made with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Tuesday suggest an abrupt relocation, not unlike an upset partner moving out in the middle of the night.

The data-analytics company reportedly signed a lease in September for 11,400 square feet at the Financial House, located at 205 Detroit St. in Cherry Creek, and had even submitted plans to remodel the space, according to a BusinessDen story based on public records.

That would suggest Palantir saw a future in Colorado and was committed to Denver. But that address hasn’t shown up in any corporate filing made with the SEC or with the Colorado Secretary of State’s Office. If Palantir had ever intended to make Cherry Creek its headquarters, the plans are off.

In a change of address filing the company made with the secretary of state on Feb. 9, Palantir listed its principal office as being at 518 17th St., Suite 1015, replacing its prior address of 1200 17th St., Floor 15, which it had listed as its home since a filing made on July 23, 2023 — and . The first address is in the DC Building, while the second one is in the Tabor Center.

On Wednesday, the company informed the state of another address change — , an apparent coworking space in Aventura, Florida.

Both Gov. Jared Polis and Denver Mayor Mike Johnston described being caught off guard by the company’s decision to relocate. Palantir executives didn’t offer state and local leaders a chance to talk them into staying. But the company had a reputation for being tight-lipped and keeping to itself.

Even the company’s local headcount remains a mystery. Polis said Tuesday that it might be around 500.

Palantir’s importance wasn’t as much in its employee count as in its market value, which at its peak late last year surpassed that of every other Colorado company combined. It single-handedly put Denver on the map as an artificial intelligence hub, although not without controversy.

The company, which has extensive government contracts, has faced repeated protests over the assistance provided to the Israeli military in Gaza, as well as its recent contracts with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to help it in its deportation efforts. A protest at the end of January was larger than usual.

“We take this as proof that coordinated, collaborative action by the people is the most effective route to bringing about a better world. We won’t stop until Palantir is fully out of Denver and is brought to justice. We look forward to supporting the people of South Florida in the continued fight against this destructive corporation and its billionaire owners,” said Michael Hughes of Denver Anti-War Action, in a statement Wednesday.

Moving to South Florida, which has a much larger immigrant community than Denver, likely won’t shield it from protests.

New address is a coworking space

For a big public company with $332.5 billion in market value to abruptly shift its address and put its executives in a coworking space would be the corporate equivalent of sleeping on a best friend’s couch while going through a breakup. If the sudden move were a movie, Paul Simon’s “50 Ways to Leave Your Lover” could provide the soundtrack.

It remains to be seen how much of the company’s workforce will remain in Denver, but the company is reported to be looking for more permanent space in the Miami area.

Aventura is a suburb on the northern edge of Miami-Dade County, closer to Fort Lauderdale than downtown Miami. The suite number is a mailing address for the Industrious coworking space, which is located within the Aventura Mall Office Tower, a building that has about 250,000 square feet of space and is attached to one of the nation’s most active malls.

Based on its typical footprint, Industrious might lease about 10% of that space, and of that amount, only a fraction of that would have likely been available for Palantir to take.

Palantir listed two key risks associated with its presence in Colorado in its 10-K, the first related to climate change and the second to the state’s new AI regulations.

“… our Colorado headquarters has experienced climate-related events and may continue to at an increasing frequency in the future, including drought, water scarcity, heat waves and wildfires, resulting in air quality impacts and power shutoffs. Additionally, while many of our employees have returned to our offices, it could be particularly difficult to mitigate the impact of these events on our employees continuing to work remotely,” the company said.

But if Palantir was looking for climate stability, Florida is hardly the place to go. That state has been hit by roughly 500 tropical and subtropical cyclones in records going back to 1851. And there have been only 18 years in the past 175 years where a hurricane didn’t strike somewhere. The 2004 and 2005 hurricane seasons proved especially rough.

A more likely explanation is what the company said about the Colorado Artificial Intelligence Act, or CAIA, which the state legislature passed in 2024 and which is set to take effect this summer.

Palantir specifically called out Colorado’s AI legislation as a risk to its operations in its latest 10-K filing, saying the law mirrors provisions appearing in  European Union regulations. It also mentions concerns about narrower regulatory efforts on AI in California, Utah and Texas.

“When such legislation or commitments, or if similar legislation or commitments in other jurisdictions, are enacted or adopted, compliance with such obligations may be difficult, onerous, and costly, and could adversely affect our business, reputation, financial condition, results of operations, and growth prospects,” the company warned investors.

Palantir’s departure ‘a real loss’

Attendees gathered on Wednesday at the Colorado Technology Association’s annual Tech Summit were also at a loss to explain why Palantir left, while acknowledging the company didn’t rub shoulders with the local tech community. They lacked insights and feared their warnings about the impacts of the state’s new AI law were coming true.

“I think it is a real loss,” said Seth Levine, a co-founder and partner in Foundry, a Boulder-based venture capital firm.

Levine was awarded the CTA’s Bob Newman Lifetime Achievement Award, along with David Cohen, founder and CEO of TechStars, a leading tech business incubator that got its start in Boulder.

After Colorado passed its AI bill into law, Levine said he heard from several investors saying they wouldn’t invest in any Colorado companies that Foundry brought to them. It might have been an overreaction, but members of the tech community nationally considered Colorado to be heavy-handed and stifling innovation.

Cohen raised the possibility that Palantir was lured away by the appeal of Miami, which has become a popular destination for tech and financial companies and billionaires looking to escape higher income taxes in other states.

“Miami is doing a good job of marketing itself,” Cohen said, although as someone who knows the tech scene there, he questions whether the appeal is sustainable.

“Trump is trying to power grab,” Griswold, a Democrat, said in an interview with The Denver Post. “He is trying to rewrite the 2020 election.”

Peters, a Republican, is serving nine years behind bars after a jury convicted her last summer of breaching her county’s election computer system in an attempt to buttress the president’s and his supporters’ false claims that the Democrats stole the 2020 election, which was won by Joe Biden, from Trump.

Since Trump returned to office for a second term in January after winning last November’s election, he has directed the Department of Justice to review her case. DOJ lawyers have filed court motions on her behalf, so far unsuccessfully.

On his on Thursday morning, the president called Peters — who turns 70 next month — a “brave and innocent Patriot who has been tortured by Crooked Colorado politicians.”

“She did nothing wrong, except catching the Democrats cheat in the Election,” the president wrote. “She is an old woman, and very sick. If she is not released, I am going to take harsh measures!!”

Trump also called for Peters’ release in May, using similar rhetoric.

Griswold, in the interview, said she had no idea what Trump meant with his threat, saying it could just be “bluster” from the president. But she said because Peters was convicted in state court, there’s nothing Trump can do to unwind the jury’s decision.

“The president has absolutely no authority to issue a pardon,” Griswold said.

Last year, Peters was convicted of three counts of attempting to influence a public servant, a count of conspiracy to commit criminal impersonation, first-degree official misconduct, violation of duty and failing to comply with the secretary of state.

The former clerk was accused of using someone else’s security badge to give an expert affiliated with My Pillow chief executive Mike Lindell access to the Mesa County election system. Prosecutors said Peters was seeking fame and became “fixated” on voting problems after becoming involved with those who had questioned the accuracy of the 2020 presidential election results.

The two-term senator sponsored several pieces of voter-rights legislation at the state Capitol and previously was the state director of America Votes in Colorado and Minnesota. Danielson, who grew up on her family farm in Weld County, also previously worked as the NARAL Pro-Choice Colorado political director.

“I’m running for secretary of state to defend a democracy under threat and stand up for the patriotic election workers who make sure voting remains free and fair,” Danielson said in a statement announcing her candidacy. “I helped build the system that has made Colorado a national model for secure, fair and accessible elections — and now I’m running to protect it.”

She accused President Donald Trump of working to use the federal government “to seize our ballots, seize election equipment and interfere in mail-in ballot counting for his benefit,” and called on Coloradans to “unite in defense of our way of life.”

Danielson is the second Democrat to announce for secretary of state, joining Jefferson County Clerk and Recorder Amanda Gonzalez. Republicans Cory Parella and Ross Taraborelli have also filed for the office.

They all seek to follow Secretary of State Jena Griswold, who is term-limited.

In a May 12 letter, the head of the Justice Department’s civil rights division requested a broad swath of voter and election data from the Colorado Secretary of State’s Office — a request that potentially covered everything from surveillance footage and custody logs to completed paper ballots from previous elections. The civil rights division’s head, Harmeet Dhillon, wrote that the agency had received a complaint that Colorado wasn’t complying with a federal election statute that includes record retention.

The request — and the records it sought — is unprecedented, said Matt Crane, the executive director of the Colorado County Clerks Association. The federal request was .

“It����ap really, really expansive,” Crane said. “I’ve never seen anything like this before, nor has anybody else that I know in this field.”

Secretary of State Jena Griswold said her office turned over some records to the agency, including two recent voter lists and a third document that included which Coloradans voted. Those are all public records that could be provided to anyone who asked, Griswold said Tuesday.

Griswold said her office either didn’t have access to other records that were requested, which are kept by individual counties, or her office didn’t believe the Justice Department had a legal basis for seeking them.

Crane and Griswold both said they thought the request was intended to help Peters, who was convicted last year of using someone else’s security badge in spring 2021 to give access to Mesa County’s elections system to a third party with ties to another prominent election denier, MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell.

Griswold said the federal laws cited in the Justice Department’s letter were the same used by Peters’ defense to claim that she was only seeking to preserve election records, and Crane said he worried that the request would expand what would be considered an election record to back up Peters. The letter also came a week after President Donald Trump referred to Peters on social media as a “political prisoner” and called for her release.

Shortly after Trump returned to office in January, the Justice Department had also previously filed a “statement of interest” in Peters’ case, a sign of the agency’s interest in her conviction.

The Justice Department did not return an email Monday seeking comment.

On March 25, Griswold’s office received a separate letter from the law firm that Dhillon, the Justice Department official, had founded. The letter, sent on behalf of the Republican National Committee, also sought a broad selection of election records.

The expansive request from the Justice Department had several problems, Griswold said. For one, it erroneously referred to Colorado as a “commonwealth,” and it requested data dating back to November 2000. That was a typo, Griswold and Crane said, and was supposed to refer to the 2020 election that Trump has falsely claimed he won. The two officials took that as another tip-off that the request was intended to affect Peters.

Griswold said her office hasn’t heard from the Justice Department since it sent some records last month. Crane said that, to his knowledge, no county has received a similar letter from the agency seeking the records that Griswold’s office says it doesn’t have. Griswold has also not received any information about the complaint that formed the basis of the letter.

“We don’t even know what it means,” she said. “As far as we know, it����ap Donald Trump’s complaining on social media.”

They threw flash grenades, handcuffed the homeowner, used a Taser on his dog, confiscated hard drives — and seized $5 million worth of switchblade knives from locked cabinets in the man’s spacious garage, according to court documents.

Two-and-a-half years later, government representatives returned the switchblades with the message that they did not intend to pursue the matter further.

To this day, Johan Lumsden says he has no idea why his home was raided.

Lumsden on Tuesday filed a federal lawsuit against the United States, alleging the government ruined his online switchblade business by taking his inventory, damaged his property and reputation, injured his dog, and caused him pain, suffering and severe emotional distress.

The whole ordeal remains a mystery more than four years later, Lumsden’s attorney, Paul Gordon, said in an interview Thursday.

Lumsden thinks the conducted the raid, Gordon said. But customs officials might have been there as well. Perhaps the .

The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Colorado declined to comment on Thursday.

The Adams County resident was never indicted or charged with a crime, he says in the lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Denver. A grand jury did subpoena his tax returns, Gordon said. But nothing ever came of it.

“Almost as mysteriously as they showed up, they said, ‘We have all your inventory; where do you want to pick it up?’ ” Gordon said.

Lumsden and his attorney only have theories about what could have happened: Could there have been a customs issue importing the switchblades? Could the government have thought he was cheating on his taxes? Could a neighbor or competitor him?

“We’ve gotten to the point where the only way to figure out what happened was to file a lawsuit and get discovery,” Gordon said.

Colorado lawmakers in 2017 the possession of switchblades, and it’s in the state to openly carry these types of knives if the blades are shorter than three-and-a-half inches.

Some municipalities — such as Denver, Aurora, Boulder and Lakewood — have .

It’s a misconception, Lumsden’s lawsuit notes, that criminals are a target market for switchblades, which rely on mechanisms to lock their blades in an open position. “If the lock fails during a fight, the blade will cut or sever fingers, a risk easily avoided by using different types of weapons,” the lawsuit states.

Instead, switchblades are primarily sold to collectors, first responders and the military, the complaint states.

Lumsden’s business, RoadsideImports LLC, remains in good standing with the Colorado Secretary of State’s Office.

In a statement, District Attorney Beth McCann said the release of the passwords, which were posted on the secretary of state’s website for several months starting in June, was not “an effort to influence the outcome of an election.” Instead, she wrote, the passwords release was an error that didn’t constitute a violation of law.

A law firm hired by Secretary of State Jena Griswold’s office previously determined that the passwords’ release was inadvertent, though the review found that the office violated information security policies.

The passwords were included in a hidden tab on a larger spreadsheet by a staffer who left Griswold’s office in May 2023, the firm’s review found. Current staff members were not aware of the hidden tab when they published the spreadsheet online a year later.

In a separate statement Friday, Griswold’s office reiterated McCann’s findings and said that it had cooperated with the Denver investigation. Spokesman Jack Todd declined to comment further.

McCann’s office opened the investigation in November, shortly after the Colorado Republican Party announced in late October the discovery of the spreadsheet containing hidden passwords, which could be publicly downloaded.

There has been no evidence indicating the passwords were used to alter or interfere with election results, nor has any evidence suggested that elections systems were compromised. Anyone seeking to do so would’ve needed another set of passwords as well as physical access to controlled, camera-monitored areas in county clerks’ offices.

According to , investigators spoke with several current and former state employees and also reviewed employees’ laptops and email accounts.

In an Oct. 24 email exchange among secretary of state staff — sent the day the office became aware that the passwords were publicly available — staffers sought to take down the spreadsheet. After being told about the issue, one employee whose name is redacted from the report replied: “Jesus.”

Investigators also received numerous “sworn affidavits” from people and groups seeking an investigation into the situation. None of those affidavits included new information or evidence that a crime had been committed, according to the report, and none came from within Denver.

The district attorney’s office in El Paso County has said it received two affidavits alleging state law violations, and the agency said it would cooperate with Denver prosecutors and review the Denver investigation. A spokeswoman for that office did not return messages seeking comment Friday.

Denver attorney Beth Doherty Quinn found that the office violated one policy regarding training individuals to ensure nonpublic information isn’t released. And it violated another policy on the review of data to ensure it doesn’t contain secure information before it’s publicly released.

Still, the 19-page report broadly absolved Secretary of State Jena Griswold and her staff of wrongdoing. Doherty Quinn wrote that “a series of inadvertent and unforeseen events led to the public disclosure” of the passwords on a spreadsheet posted to the Secretary of State’s website in June.

The passwords’ presence on a hidden worksheet in the file was not discovered by the state until late October, and elected county clerks weren’t informed for several days — sparking frustration and criticism from some election officials.

The “substantial weight of the evidence demonstrates that the BIOS passwords contained in the hidden worksheets posted on the Secretary of State website were posted mistakenly, unknowingly and unintentionally because the (Voting Systems) Team was unaware the hidden worksheets existed,” Doherty Quinn wrote.

She offered seven recommendations for Griswold’s office to adopt, including a prohibition on the use of hidden worksheets, the storage of all passwords in digital “password safes,” and the implementation of tighter scrutiny for which information is posted to the secretary of state’s website.

In a statement released with the report, Griswold said her office was “committed to implementing (the) recommendations to ensure a situation like this never occurs again.” Griswold previously said she regretted that the information was published.

Shortly after the report was released Monday morning, the Legislative Audit Committee rejected a request from its Republican chair, Rep. Lisa Frizell, to launch an audit in response to the leak. Frizell, a senator-elect who said she hadn’t seen the report issued that morning, said an audit was needed in part because of “fairly systematic and problematic issues” related to “communications with the clerks.”

The vote was tied, with all four of the committee’s Democrats voting against it and all four Republicans voting for it. Two of the Democrats noted the release of the Doherty Quinn’s report and its recommendations.

Doherty Quinn’s firm was hired by Griswold’s office last month to investigate the release of the passwords, which were discovered by a prominent election denier, Shawn Smith. Smith testified in early November that he learned of the passwords’ presence online on Oct. 24, the same day that Griswold’s office said it became aware of them.

The news was not announced until the Colorado Republican Party, led by another election denier, revealed the passwords’ publication on Oct. 29.

Smith testified that he was contacted by an attorney — before the leak was public knowledge — to fill out an affidavit about what he knew. It’s unclear how that attorney, John Case, learned of the leak or knew to contact Smith about it.

According to , Smith told a group of Republicans in late November that he was tipped off about the passwords by Republican state Rep. Stephanie Luck and another Republican politician. Luck did not immediately return a message sent Monday morning. Case previously declined to answer questions.

“Difficult to anticipate” circumstances

The passwords on their own were not enough to access or alter election equipment, and a Denver judge ruled last month that there was no evidence that election systems were accessed after the password leak.

Staff from the Secretary of State’s Office removed the spreadsheet from its website and then traveled around the state to manually change any active passwords that were leaked.

“The investigator finds that this unique set of circumstances would have been difficult to anticipate,” Doherty Quinn wrote. “Further, on an organizational level, the Secretary of State/CDOS consistently took significant and appropriate measures to protect state information, including the BIOS passwords.”

The 2024 election results in Colorado have been certified.

According to Doherty Quinn’s report, the passwords were initially pasted into a separate, internal spreadsheet by a former member of the office’s voting systems team. That employee, who left in spring 2023, told Doherty Quinn that she kept the passwords in a hidden tab as “scratch paper” to help in her work.

When the employee left, she did not communicate the existence of the passwords in the file. Another version of the file had been published before, albeit in a PDF format that did not allow access to the hidden worksheets that included the passwords.

“Thus, (the former employee) had no expectation that the hidden worksheets would become public,” Doherty Quinn wrote.

But in June 2024, after the employee left, other staff decided to publish a more interactive version of the file that would be more user friendly. Those staff members were unaware of the passwords’ presence, according to the report, and were not aware of a software function that would’ve allowed them to check for hidden tabs.

Another employee, charged with reviewing material before it was published online, approved the file’s publication within a minute of it being requested. The secretary of state has “no policy, no directive and no written procedure for approving a web request,” the new report says, and that the employee received no additional training when he became an “authorized reviewer.”

Two other policy violations occurred but did not contribute to the passwords’ publication, Doherty Quinn wrote. They included insufficient password security for the original internal spreadsheet and a failure by employees to review and sign the office’s computer policies.

Fallout included complaints by clerks

County clerks have vented frustration about how Griswold’s office handled the leak. Some officials, including the head of the Colorado County Clerks Association, said they learned that passwords had been published online via the media.

In emails obtained by The Denver Post last month, two county clerks criticized Griswold’s office in communications to her staff. In a Nov. 4 email, Molly Fitzpatrick, the Boulder County clerk and a fellow Democrat, said that her sympathy for Griswold’s office over the leak “has turned into complete irritation and disdain at the lack of support we are getting to communicate to voters.”

In a separate letter to Griswold that was also sent Nov. 4, Fremont County Clerk Justin Grantham, a Republican, accused Griswold of refusing to take accountability and of shifting blame to others in her office. Grantham said the situation exacerbated some people’s distrust in elections.

He wrote that he wanted an independent investigation and an apology, and he said that he could not “in good conscience trust you in this position and defend your office.”

In an email Monday, Grantham told The Post that he needed to review the new report before commenting. Matt Crane, the executive director of the clerks association, did not immediately respond to a message seeking comment.

Griswold told legislators in mid-November that her office was focused on discovering the scope of the leak before it informed clerks that passwords had been made available online. She said she regretted that clerks didn’t learn of the leak from her.

The DA’s office on Monday would not divulge additional details of the probe beyond confirming an open investigation.

On Oct. 29, Secretary of State Jena Griswold announced that a spreadsheet posted publicly on her office’s website for several months “improperly included” a hidden tab that displayed passwords protecting Colorado voting machines in many counties. The office categorized the breach as accidental.

Griswold is not the focus or target of the DA’s investigation, according to an email obtained by The Denver Post that was sent by Beth McCann, the district attorney, to the office.

“I can’t say what we might learn during the investigation related to involvement of any members of the office, but at this point, we have not discovered evidence of criminal activity,” McCann wrote.

After the disclosure late last month, a team of state employees quickly went to country clerk offices to change passwords and shore up security ahead of the Nov. 5 election. Thirty-four of Colorado’s 64 counties were affected, officials found.

State election officials said the breach did not pose a security threat to Colorado’s elections and did not impact how ballots would be counted. A password listed in the spreadsheet would need to be paired with another password kept separately, and the person using them would need physical access to machines kept in secure rooms.

The leak by the Democratic official’s office prompted outcry from the Colorado Republican Party and President-elect Donald Trump’s campaign, which of processing of mail-in ballots in counties impacted by the breach. The state did not stop counting ballots.

On Election Day, a Denver judge rejected a request by the Libertarian Party of Colorado to require hand-counting of ballots in counties affected by the breach. The judge found that there was no evidence that elections systems had been compromised.

The Secretary of State’s Office, in a statement, said it is working closely with the DA’s investigation.

“We welcome the additional transparency that this investigation will provide to the public,” the statement read.

The El Paso County district attorney’s office said in a press release Friday that it had received two affidavits alleging violations of state law. The agency said it would cooperate with the Denver investigation and provide resources as needed.

“This office will review the investigation conducted by the Denver DA’s Office to determine if further investigation should be conducted, and which office is best suited to complete any additional investigation,” the release stated.