Last August, Dallas Schroeder entered a secure facility in Elbert County, Colorado, and copied computers and hard drives that contained election and voter data.
Schroeder did so while on the phone with a pair of election denial activists who guided him through using a "forensic imager" device that retails for roughly $4,100, he later told Secretary of State Jena Griswold through his attorney, according to a copy of written responses provided to NBC News by Griswold’s office.
But Schroeder, the Republican clerk and recorder who oversees the county’s elections, didn't need anyone's help gaining access to the facility: he used his key card.
"The vast majority of both Republican and Democratic county elections officials do a wonderful job, but we are seeing these bad actors," said Griswold, a Democrat who launched an investigation into the incident involving Schroeder in January and later filed a lawsuit alleging he gave sensitive elections data to an unauthorized individual.
Schroeder did not respond to requests for comment for this article.
To date, election officials in at least six different counties in Colorado, Ohio and Michigan have been investigated by state officials, local or federal law enforcement authorities, or a mix of the three. Some have been accused of allowing improper access to election materials, or, such as in Schroeder's case, of sharing sensitive election information with unauthorized people. In at least one county in Colorado, state officials have had...
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