Former Colorado official sentenced to prison in election data scheme

By Free Republic | Created at 2024-10-03 20:00:27 | Updated at 2024-10-07 00:20:34 3 days ago

Former Colorado official sentenced to prison in election data scheme
The Washington Post ^ | October 3, 2024 at 3:07 p.m. EDT | Maegan Vazquez

Posted on 10/03/2024 12:47:42 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

Tina Peters, a former county election official in Colorado, was sentenced Thursday to 8½ years in prison and six months in jail after being found guilty of charges connected to efforts to copy election data from her office as Donald Trump and his allies spread false claims that the 2020 election was stolen and searched for evidence to prove it.

Judge Matthew Barrett, who presided over the sentencing, also ordered Peters, the former Mesa County clerk, to pay thousands of dollars in fines.

Peters, who had asked for probation, emphasized earlier in Thursday’s sentencing that maintaining her innocence was not a form of disrespect of the law, saying, “I’m not a criminal, and I don’t deserve to go to a prison where other people committed heinous crimes.”

But in his sentencing decision, Barrett said Peters used her privilege “to obtain power, a following and fame.”

“You are no hero, you abused your position, and you’re a charlatan who used and is still using your prior position in office to peddle a snake oil that’s been proven to be a snake oil time and time again,” the judge remarked before handing down the sentence.

In August, a Colorado jury found Peters guilty on seven of 10 charges, including several counts of attempting to influence a public servant and conspiracy to commit criminal impersonation.

Prosecutors charged Peters in 2022 and accused her of helping to secretly copy Dominion Voting Systems hard drives by sneaking Conan Hayes, a former professional surfer and purported computer expert, into secure areas of her office in 2021 using someone else’s security badge. Within months, data from her office appeared online and was featured at a symposium held by Mike Lindell, the MyPillow chief executive who continues to trumpet false...

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Tina's crime? Backing up the log file of a voting machine before Democrat election officials could illegally delete it.

To: E. Pluribus Unum

Tina’s crime? Backing up the log file of a voting machine before Democrat election officials could illegally delete it.

Exactly .... another example of this regime’s WEAPONIZED GOV’T!!!

2 posted on 10/03/2024 12:49:55 PM PDT by Jane Long (The role of the GOP: to write sharply-worded letters as America becomes a communist hell-hole.)

To: E. Pluribus Unum

” to peddle a snake oil that’s been proven to be a snake oil time and time again”

The judge is using political diatribes he read in the media to make such a claim.

This outrageous retaliation by the insane Colorado Secretary of State - a woman who’s absurd “insurrection” claims were beaten down by the Supreme Court - deserves to have the entirety of the state government there to be driven out of office and prosecuted themselves.

And this “judge” should be dealt with by the electorate of Mesa County, which is a rather conservative area. And likely will be.

Maybe he can get a job in Arizona from the Deranged Dyke Kris Mayes.

3 posted on 10/03/2024 12:54:03 PM PDT by Regulator (It's fraud, Jim)

To: E. Pluribus Unum

We are now a Communist Nation.

4 posted on 10/03/2024 12:54:42 PM PDT by Openurmind

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To: E. Pluribus Unum

These people have no conscience. They don't are who they destroy while knowing she was only trying to confirm what everyone knows. The election was stolen. Same with J6ers. God one day expose their evil hearts.

6 posted on 10/03/2024 12:58:56 PM PDT by Linda Frances (Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness. )

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