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The Colorado Secretary of State's office posted partial voting system passwords online but the error did not pose an immediate security threat to the state’s elections, officials said on Tuesday.

"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," Secretary of State Jena Griswold’s office said in a statement. "This does not pose an immediate security threat to Colorado’s elections, nor will it impact how ballots are counted."

The Colorado GOP first announced the incident on Tuesday and released an affidavit from an individual purporting to find the hidden tab. The individual’s name was redacted.

"We hear all the time in Colorado from Secretary Griswold and Governor Polis that we represent the 'Gold Standard' for election integrity, a model for the nation," said Dave Williams, chairman of the Republican Party of Colorado in a press release. "One can only hope that by the Secretary of State posting our most sensitive passwords online to the world dispels that myth," said Williams

According to Griswold's office, there are two unique passwords for every election equipment component which are kept in separate places, held by different parties and can only be used with physical in-person access to a voting system.

Under Colorado law, voting equipment must be stored in secure rooms that are under 24/7 surveillance.

"No person may be present in a secure area unless they are authorized to do so or are supervised by an authorized and background-checked employee," Griswold said. "There are also strict chain of custody requirements that track when a voting systems component has been accessed and by whom."

-ABC News' Laura Romero

Two people were arrested at the Harris campaign rally at the Ellipse in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday, sources told ABC News.

One adult male and one adult female were arrested for assault on a police officer near the intersection of 17th St. and Constitution Ave. near the site of the rally.

A North Carolina appeals court on Tuesday rejected a Republican-led effort to block ballots cast by overseas voters unless they could provide additional proof of their residency in the state.

The Republican National Committee sued the North Carolina State Board of Elections earlier this month over a policy that allows voters living abroad to cast their ballot in the state if their parents previously lived in North Carolina, even if the voter never resided in the state themselves.

A trial judge last week denied the RNC's request to stop the policy, and their appeal of that decision was unanimously rejected by a panel of three judges on the North Carolina Court of Appeals Tuesday.

The Republican National Committee -- joined by the state party and two voters -- argued that the policy "flies in the face of the state constitution" by allowing non-residents to participate in the state’s elections.

"North Carolina has notoriously close elections," the lawsuit said. "Now more than ever, counting every legitimate vote from every eligible voter -- and only legitimate votes from eligible voters -- matters."

The North Carolina State Board of Elections highlighted that the policy has been in place for over a decade without issue, arguing the injunction requested by the RNC would "disenfranchise an entire class of lawful voters."

"Petitioners’ petition represents an unwarranted and unprecedented effort to disrupt an ongoing election by throwing countless voters’ duly cast ballots into question with no actual proof of any problem with them," the state said in their filing.

The case is yet another legal setback for Republicans, who lost a similar case in Pennsylvania earlier Tuesday.

-ABC News' Peter Charalambous

Multiple pro-Palestinian protesters were escorted out at separate points by security during Vice President Kamala Harris' remarks on Tuesday night at the Ellipse in Washington, D.C.

The protesters, who ABC News saw inside the Ellipse, were staging small protests calling for an arms embargo on Israel. One protester was escorted out right near the stage.