Indicted CO Clerk: Boebert “Encouraged” My Actions

The New York Times reports:

It was Tina Peters, not the Russians, who had helped engineer an audacious breach of voting machines, according to an indictment charging her with seven felonies. Ms. Peters arranged to copy sensitive election software from county voting machines in an attempt to prove the 2020 presidential election was rigged, according to court records.

The Mesa County breach involved a former surfer who was dressed as a computer “nerd” and made a FaceTime call during the operation, reporting by The New York Times shows. Afterward, the crew shared their loot — images of voting machine data — at a conference streamed online, advertising the effort to thousands.

On Friday, Ms. Peters told The Times that her congresswoman, Rep. Lauren Boebert, “encouraged me to go forward with the imaging.” A press officer for Ms. Boebert, a Republican, called the claim false.

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