The Colorado secretary of state left voting-machine passwords available on a spreadsheet posted to an official government website and only fixed the situation after the issue became public.

Colorado secretary of state Jena Griswold (D.), an elected official who pushed for former president Donald Trump’s removal from the state’s ballot, found out about the password leak on October 24, but her office only remedied the situation after receiving public scrutiny, local outlet 9news Denver reported Wednesday night.

The passwords were discoverable on a hidden tab posted on an Excel spreadsheet available on the Colorado secretary of state’s website. The issue became public when Colorado GOP vice chair Hope Scheppelman sent it in an email blast along with an affidavit from somebody who found the tab after downloading the spreadsheet, according to 9News.

“The Colorado Department of State is aware that a spreadsheet located on the Department’s website improperly included a hidden tab including partial passwords to certain components of Colorado voting systems. This does not pose an immediate security threat to Colorado’s elections, nor will it impact how ballots are counted,” the Colorado state department said in a statement Tuesday.

“The Department took immediate action as soon as it was aware of this, and informed the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, which closely monitors and protects the county’s essential security infrastructure. The Department is working to remedy this situation where necessary.”

Colorado governor Jared Polis (D.) announced Thursday state officials’ plan to deploy additional resources to ensure that the voting machines were not tampered with. They will be enlisting state employees from other government agencies with cybersecurity and tech expertise to assist with updating the passwords. Election officials will be supervising the employees, and they will be vetted ahead of time.

“We are deploying additional state resources to address this unfortunate leak. We want to resolve the current situation quickly by lending resources to help get the necessary passwords changed as quickly as possible with minimal impact on county clerk operation,” Polis said.

With the leaked passwords, a person could make changes to the voting machines if given in-person access to them. The spreadsheet lists the machines each county clerk uses and included the serial number, county, model, and vendor.

Since the 2020 election, Trump and his supporters have spread false claims that voting machines were manipulated to tip the scales of the 2020 election in President Biden’s favor. There is no evidence currently of the voting machines being manipulated.

Colorado is a deep-blue state where early voting is underway. Trump is likely to lose the state this November against Vice President Kamala Harris.

Last year, Griswold supported the Colorado supreme court’s ruling barring Trump from the state’s ballot under the Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, which bans individuals who engaged in insurrection from running for office. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 9-0 in March to restore Trump to the Colorado ballot, determining that congressional authorization is needed to restrict a candidate’s ballot access for alleged 14th Amendment violations.

The Supreme Court ruling prevented similar disqualifications in Maine and Illinois from taking effect, ensuring that Trump would be on the ballot in all 50 states.