May 16 (Reuters) - A former Republican minority leader of the Colorado legislature is among the recipients of a trove of sensitive voting data leaked by a county official working with activists seeking to prove President Donald Trump's false stolen-election claims, according to court records reviewed by Reuters.
The revelation indicates the breach of ballot data in Elbert County was wider than previously understood. The case, now being investigated by the Colorado secretary of state, is one of at least nine unauthorized attempts to access voting-system data around the United States, at least eight of which involved Republican officials or activists seeking evidence to delegitimize Democratic President Joe Biden's election victory.
The clerk in Elbert County, Dallas Schroeder, previously testified that he copied voting data from the county's election server onto two hard drives and gave them to two lawyers. Schroeder, responding to the investigation and a related lawsuit by the secretary of state, said that one of the recipients was his own attorney, John Case, and refused to name the other lawyer.
But a third lawyer also handled the data, according to affidavits from the attorneys involved. The documents, reviewed by Reuters, show that Schroeder's lawyer, Case, hired his own attorney, who also took possession of one of the hard drives.
That third lawyer was Joseph Stengel, a former state lawmaker who served as Republican minority leader. Stengel, based in Denver, is a...
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