Tina Peters, the former Mesa County, Colorado, clerk, falsely claimed Donald Trump lost the 2020 election to President Joe Biden due to ballot fraud.
  • Former Mesa County, Colorado, clerk Tina Peters was sentenced to nine years in prison for crimes related to a breach of her county’s voting system.
  • Peters espoused the false conspiracy theory that Donald Trump lost the 2020 election to President Joe Biden due to ballot fraud.
  • She was accused of allowing access to the voting system to an expert affiliated with My Pillow CEO Mike Lindell, a leading proponent of the Trump election conspiracy theory.

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  • snooggumsEnglish
    54•2 months ago

    It is a shame that the article doesn’t have those details.

    Oh wait, it does!

    Peters, 68, was convicted by a trial jury in August of seven criminal counts, including attempt to influence a public servant, conspiracy to commit criminal impersonation, violation of duty, and failure to comply with secretary of state requirements.

    She was accused of using another person’s security badge to allow someone else to gain access to her county’s election system.

    The person who used that badge was affiliated with Mike Lindell, the CEO of My Pillow and a leading proponent of the claim that Trump’s defeat for a second term was due to ballot fraud.

    There is no reason for this kind of access except to tamper, because the system is formally audited by people who don’t have to sneak in through illegal access.

    • @[email protected]English
      -34•2 months ago

      Thanks for summing it up for me and no thanks for the hostility! Reminds me of Reddit, so I feel right at home.

      Yep, she should be in prison.

      • snooggumsEnglish
        33•2 months ago

        I’m sick of people trying to pretend like the people trying to interfere with elections would have some kind of non-malicious intent.

        Also I was being snarky, not hostile. Words mean things.

        • @[email protected]English
          -33•2 months ago

          I’m sick of people jumping down each other’s throats when someone asks about something they don’t know about.

          So I guess we’re both sick of each other. 🖕

            • @[email protected]English
              -37•2 months ago

              Why are you still talking to me? Is it because you’re lying about being sick of people like me and it’s really that you enjoy being rude?

              Going to have to figure out how to block people on lemmy now. May as well learn how on day 2, but it’s a bit sooner than I expected.

              • @Retrograde
                31•2 months ago

                I’ve never spoken to you in my life

                I am now suspecting that you are a russian NPC or a clueless boomer, maybe both. Bless you either way

              • @Nastybutler
                21•1 month ago

                I’m surprised you managed to figure out how to make a Lemmy account considering you can’t even tell when more than one person responds to you. And acting all wounded when you didn’t bother to RTFA and someone is kind enough to spoon feed you anyway is very reddit of you.