The state of Colorado published the passwords to all of its voting machines online.
Over 600 voting machine passwords were made available in a spreadsheet online through their official website.
The state has said that it's no big deal and has not changed the passwords.
https://www.newsweek.com/colorado-publishes-voting-system-passwords-major-error-1977046
Colorado Publishes Voting System Passwords in Major Error

Colorado's secretary of state has said partial passwords for voting system components were mistakenly posted on its official website.

The passwords, accessible via a hidden tab in a publicly available spreadsheet, were removed on October 24 after the error was discovered. State officials emphasized that the incident was inadvertent, has been rectified, and has not affected the election process.

"This does not pose an immediate security threat to Colorado's elections, nor will it impact how ballots are counted," the Colorado Department of State said in a statement on Tuesday.

Election integrity has been a central concern in the lead-up to November 5, as former President Donald Trump continues to make unsupported claims that the 2020 election was stolen from him through widespread voter fraud. Last week, Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold said the state's elections were secure after election staff discovered a dozen fraudulent mailed ballots during a signature verification process

According to a release from the Colorado Republican Party, the spreadsheet contained more than 600 partial BIOS passwords for voting system components across 63 of Colorado's 64 counties.

BIOS (basic input/output systems) passwords are a core component of security control for a computer system, like a master key that controls access to the basic hardware settings of a computer. The passwords in question were neither encrypted nor otherwise protected.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/supreme-court-allows-virginia-purge-noncitizens-voter-rolls-ahead-elec-rcna177673
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Wednesday allowed Republican officials in Virginia to revive a plan aimed at removing noncitizen voters from the rolls ahead of next week’s election.

The justices blocked a federal judge’s ruling that put the program on hold and required the state to restore 1,600 voters to the rolls.

The brief order noted that the three liberal justices on the court, which has a 6-3 conservative majority, all dissented.

"This is a victory for commonsense and election fairness," Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin, a Republican who announced the plan in August, said in a statement.

"Virginians can cast their ballots on Election Day knowing that Virginia’s elections are fair, secure, and free from politically-motivated interference," he added.

Virginia has same-day voter registration, meaning that any eligible voter who was removed from the rolls should still be able to vote.

Civil rights groups, backed by the Biden administration, challenged the plan, saying it had led to some legal voters being removed from the rolls, too. The Justice Department said that while states can review its voter rolls, it cannot do so right before an election.

Portland and Washington radicals have progressed beyond simple ballot fraud and are now resorting to burning ballot boxes in competitive neighborhoods and precincts
https://www.katu.com/news/local/vancouver-ballot-box-seen-smoking-same-morning-as-portland-ballot-box-arson
Hundreds of ballots possibly burned after Vancouver ballot box arson: FBI investigating

VANCOUVER, Wash. — A Vancouver ballot box was burned in an arson Monday morning, authorities report - with hundreds of ballots possibly damaged in the fire.

Investigators believe the incident is connected to two other arson incidents in Portland and SW Washington

KATU was on the scene at Fisher's Landing Transit Center in Vancouver shortly after 4 a.m., where heavy smoke was seen coming from inside a drop-off ballot box.

Our photographer Evan Bell captured grey smoke steadily billowing out of the Park and Ride ballot box at Fisher's Landing Transit Center near Southeast 162nd Avenue.

Multiple police units were in the area, and the ballot box was cordoned off by police tape as it continued to smoke.

Around 6 a.m., KATU captured footage of first responders releasing a pile of actively burning ballots onto the ground, which continued to smolder and smoke heavily even after the flames were put out.

The Clark County elections auditor told us that the last ballot pickup at that location was 11 a.m. Saturday.

Hundreds of ballots were inside at the time of the burning, and KATU was told there were likely only a few that could be saved.

Voters who dropped off ballots at that location after 11 a.m. Saturday need to contact the Election Auditor's Office IMMEDIATELY for a new ballot.

A link to the Clark County Elections page, with contact information for the Auditor's Office, can be foundHERE.

Washington voters can track the status of their ballots HERE.

URGENT: Joe Biden Speaks up about Trump
https://www.newsweek.com/joe-biden-puerto-rico-donald-trump-supporters-garbage-1977002
"And just the other day, a speaker at his rally called Puerto Rico a 'floating island of garbage.' Well, let me tell you something. I don't -- I -- I don't know the Puerto Rican that -- that I know -- or a Puerto Rico, where I'm fr- -- in my home state of Delaware, they're good, decent, honorable people," the transcript sent to Newsweek read. "The only garbage I see floating out there is his supporter's -- his -- his demonization of Latinos is unconscionable, and it's un-American. It's totally contrary to everything we've done, everything we've been."

Are you okay Spain?


https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/spain-floods-latest-victims-trapped-like-rats-and-63-dead-as-spanish-pm-says-devastating-episode-not-over/ar-AA1tbI0h
https://www.adressa.no/nyheter/utenriks/i/1MW9qX/tve-minst-51-doede-i-flommen-i-spania

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14012181/tim-walz-fling-china-communist-daughter-kamala-harris-vp.html

https://abcnews.go.com/US/model-accused-trump-groping-1990s-epstein-mentioned-trump/story?id=115140529
The former Sports Illustrated swimsuit model who has accused former President Donald Trump of groping her in front of Jeffrey Epstein in the early 1990s is offering more details about what she claims she observed about Epstein's relationship with the current presidential candidate and what she says Epstein told her.

"I would say that he talked about having just seen Donald or having just done something, I mean, every time we spoke," Stacey Williams, who worked as a professional model in the 1990s, told ABC News in an interview.

Williams went public this week with an allegation that Trump groped her in front of Epstein after she said Epstein, who would later be known as a serial sex offender, brought her to Trump Tower in the early 1990s.

In her interview with ABC News, Williams said that during her several-month relationship with Epstein, who she said she met in 1992, Trump was among three people who Epstein talked to her about the most, with one of the other two being Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein's longtime associate who has since been sentenced to prison for 20 years for recruiting and grooming the underage girls who Epstein sexually abused.

The third person, Williams said, was Leslie Wexner, the billionaire retail magnate who once employed Epstein to manage his fortune.

"The people he spoke about the most were his boss, or whatever that person was, Les Wexner, hard to understand that role. And then Ghislaine, again, a little ambiguous weird relationship. And then Donald Trump," Williams told ABC News. "Those are the people he spoke about the most."

The details come after Williams first publicly discussed the alleged incident in detail on a public "Survivors for Kamala" Zoom call last Monday night in support of Vice President Kamala Harris. The group is not officially affiliated with Harris' presidential campaign.

Trump supporter Ryan Gidursky was promptly booted off the show, and CNN later said he would not be welcomed back on the network.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/politics-news/cnn-ryan-gidursky-racist-attack-mehdi-hasan-i-hope-your-beeper-doesnt-go-off-1236047263/

CNN‘s Newsnight descended into chaos and acrimony on Monday night after Donald Trump surrogate Ryan Girdusky directed an Islamophobic attack on fellow panel guest Mehdi Hasan.

During a discussion about Trump’s now infamous Madison Square Garden rally, which saw a number of speakers make blatantly racist remarks about Black people, Palestinians, Latinos, Jews and, particularly, about Puerto Rico, the panel got heated, and Hasan said as a supporter of Palestinians he was used to people groundlessly accusing him of being an antisemite.

Girdusky then replied, “I hope your beeper doesn’t go off.” The quip, which heavily implied that Hasan was a terrorist, alluded to the recent spate of pager bombings carried out by Israel that targeted Hezbollah militants in Lebanon.

Hasan and the other guests immediately realized Girdusky’s insinuation and called him out on it, with Hasan asking Girdusky whether he wanted Hasan to die. “Did you just say I should die? Did you just say I should be killed live on CNN?” an incredulous Hasan asked.

Host Abby Phillip and guest Ashley Allison quickly called out Girdusky for his racist comment and also stopped his attempts to walk back what he said and apologize. “Ryan that is completely out of pocket, you know that,” Phillip said as Girdusky tried to prevaricate. “Don’t say ‘I apologize.’ You literally accused him [of being a terrorist].”

As Girdusky continued trying to explain his comment, Phillip said: “Ryan, stop talking.”

https://abcnews.go.com/US/elon-musk-regular-contact-vladimir-putin-new-report/story?id=115130093

Elon Musk, the tech billionaire who owns Tesla and SpaceX, has allegedly been in regular contact with Russian President Vladimir Putin since 2022, a new report claims.

The allegations arose in an article published Thursday night in The Wall Street Journal, which said "several current and former U.S., European and Russian officials" had confirmed that the discussions between Musk and Putin touched on everything from business and geopolitics to personal topics.

"At one point, Putin asked the billionaire to avoid activating his Starlink satellite internet service over Taiwan as a favor to Chinese leader Xi Jinping," according to the report from the Journal. It is not known if Musk agreed to the request, the report said.

The report arrived on the same day that Musk announced he would be resuming his America PAC town halls, where he has previously handed out awards for his controversial $1 million sweepstakes giveaway for registered voters who sign his political action committee's petition pledging to uphold free speech and the right to bear arms in swing states.

The appearances had paused briefly this week, with some speculation that the timing was tied to a warning letter that was sent to the PAC this week from the Justice Department.

Trump stated earlier this month, that he would tap Musk to lead a government efficiency commission if elected.

Trump's team previously denied that the former president continued speaking with Putin after he left office, refuting an account in journalist Bob Woodward's new book, "War," that Trump had sent Russia's president a COVID-19 testing kit during the height of the pandemic.

When interviewed by Bloomberg Editor-In-Chief John Micklethwait at the Chicago Economic Club, Trump said that if he had talked to Putin, it would have been a "smart thing."

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/29/technology/election-interference-russia-china-iran.html

When Russia interfered in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, spreading divisive and inflammatory posts online to stoke outrage, its posts were brash and riddled with spelling errors and strange syntax. They were designed to get attention by any means necessary.

“Hillary is a Satan,” one Russian-made Facebook post read.

Now, eight years later, foreign interference in American elections has become far more sophisticated, and far more difficult to track.

Disinformation from abroad — particularly from Russia, China and Iran — has matured into a consistent and pernicious threat, as the countries test, iterate and deploy increasingly nuanced tactics, according to U.S. intelligence and defense officials, tech companies and academic researchers. The ability to sway even a small pocket of Americans could have outsize consequences for the presidential election, which polls generally consider a neck-and-neck race.

Russia, according to American intelligence assessments, aims to bolster the candidacy of former President Donald J. Trump, while Iran favors his opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris. China appears to have no preferred outcome.