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A former Colorado county clerk and one-time hero to election conspiracists is set to be sentenced Thursday for leading a data-breach scheme inspired by the rampant false claims that voting fraud altered the result of the 2020 presidential race.
A jury found Tina Peters guilty of most charges against her in August for orchestrating the security breach of her elections computer system.
In a post on the social media platform X after her conviction, Peters accused Colorado-based Dominion Voting Systems, which made her county’s election system, as well as lawyers for state election officials of stealing votes.
“I will continue to fight until the Truth is revealed that was not allowed to be brought during this trial. This is a sad day for our nation and the world. But we WILL win in the end,” she said.
Peters faces up to roughly 20 years in prison, but that does not mean she will spend any time there.
Sentencing is scheduled to start Thursday at 9:30 a.m. in Mesa County. 9NEWS will livestream the hearing in the video player above once it begins.
Peters explained in an interview that, “Behind my back and contrary to prior representations, these records were destroyed by the Secretary of State and the vendor. And, preventing any audit of the 2020 election. This appears to be a serious crime. But thanks to my arranging for a forensic image, that the EMS servers, just beforehand, those records are preserved.” According to Peters, this information was lost during a routine election system maintenance operation called a “trusted build” on May 25, 2021.
The evidence Peters gave to the board is an 83-page report of forensic examination and analysis. According to Peters, it was prepared by Doug Gould, the cyber forensic expert retained to advise her in accordance with her duties as the county’s Chief Election Official.
The report provided by Peters claims, “Forensic examination found that election records, including data described in the Federal Election Commission’s 2002 Voting Systems Standards (VSS) mandated by Colorado law as certification requirements for Colorado voting systems, have been destroyed on the Mesa County’s voting system, by the system vendor and the Colorado Secretary of State’s office.” The report then continues by naming concerns for possible data destruction in other counties.
The report also claims a total of 28,989 logfiles were deleted. According to the report, these logfiles are required to reconstruct the function of and events taking place on the voting systems, and based upon information provided by legal counsel, must, by law, be preserved.
In the report’s conclusion, it claims that election-related data and election data that is explicitly required to be preserved was destroyed in violation of law. Furthermore, the report asserts that the specific configuration settings of the server have likely not been met despite this system having been certified and thereby approved for use in Colo. by the Colo. Sec. of State.
The report concludes by stating, “Further investigation is required to determine the full scope of non-compliance with legal mandates for voting systems and election records, and whether the non-compliance is deliberate or simply negligent.”
Pennsylvania’s Department of State has scheduled “system maintenance” on its voter application website, coincidentally on the same day as Donald Trump’s return to the town in which he was nearly assassinated.
“The website will undergo scheduled system maintenance and be unavaliable Saturday, 5th October from 6pm until 12am,” the voter registration website reads. “We thank you for your understanding.”
Grassroots activist Scott Presler, who is among those leading the efforts to secure Pennsylvania for Donald Trump next month, pointed out the coincidence on the X platform.
“The [Pennsylvania Department of State] voter registration website will be unavailable on Saturday, October 5th,the day that President Trump will be triumphantly returning to the site of the assassination attempt in Butler County, PA,” Presler wrote. “[With] all eyes on PA, the site will be down. Coincidence?”
The judge seems to think that the 2021 and 2022 election hand counts matching 2 other electronic voting methods, somehow has to do with the results of the 2020 election!!! Someone talk some sense into this illogical fool, or clearly bias judge.
originally posted by: VictorVonDoom
So, now it's a crime to backup your data before a system update? Of course, I'm sure this law will be applied equally to everyone.
originally posted by: WeMustCare
a reply to: fringeofthefringe
This may be a corrupt judge. Election-related cases usually are assigned to corrupt judges. They will all pay for not being on the side of the people, after 1/20/2025.
originally posted by: fringeofthefringe
originally posted by: WeMustCare
a reply to: fringeofthefringe
This may be a corrupt judge. Election-related cases usually are assigned to corrupt judges. They will all pay for not being on the side of the people, after 1/20/2025.
I was wondering if anyone had any backround on this guy. I am thinking he is not going to spare Tina, I hope I am wrong. The guy, Dr. Franks I believe was testifying at the 43 minute timeframe was very good.
Former Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters was sentenced to 8-and-a-half years in prison and six months in the Mesa County Detention Center for a total of nine years incarceration on Thursday. She was convicted on 7 of 10 counts in her Colorado election interference case in August.
originally posted by: IndieA
Well, good luck finding any honest people to be public servants in Colorado.
That judge is huge POS.
Former Mesa County clerk Tina Peters sentenced to prison in Colorado election interference case
Former Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters was sentenced to 8-and-a-half years in prison and six months in the Mesa County Detention Center for a total of nine years incarceration on Thursday. She was convicted on 7 of 10 counts in her Colorado election interference case in August.