Now you are confusing me.:-)
I don’t know what I typed about her saying she never had the passwords is confusing?
Are you asking if the clerk didn’t have the password how did she (clerk) get into information? If so maybe it was because the SoS controlled ALL access. In fact IIR that is kind of what she said.
My mind works in mysterious ways...when it works! 🙃
If the county people didn’t have the passwords, it couldn’t have been the county that posted them on the website.
If the county people had the passwords but only the SoS office has access to update the county website, the county people couldn’t have posted them.
That leaves 3 options:
1. The county did have the passwords as well as they update their own county website
2. The SoS office has access to the county website (legit or not) and posted the passwords themselves
3. A third party hacked into the county website.