Prosecution Rests Case Against QAnon Ex-County Clerk

Courthouse News reports:

A Colorado judge on Thursday denied a motion for judgment of acquittal filed by Tina Peters, the former Mesa County clerk and recorder facing criminal charges related to a 2021 voting machine data leak.

Following seven days of witness testimony from state and Mesa County elections administrators, as well as an employee of Dominion Voting Systems, and a man who’s identity was misused in the leak, prosecutors rested their case Thursday.

“The facts support the charges in the indictment,” argued special deputy district attorney Janet Drake. “We’re ready to move the case to the jury.”

Read the full article.

Yesterday a former aide to Peters testified that Peters ordered her to pay cash for burner phones for staffers. Peters faces ten felony charges.

Peters appeared here in January 2024 when she claimed that the deep state had murdered her ex-husband after losing an attempt to take possession of his home. She also appeared here earlier that week when she lost her attempt to dismiss felony election machine tampering charges.

Peters appeared on JMG in February 2022 when she claimed that the deep state had murdered two relatives of her former employees in order to coerce their testimony against her. In fact, both of those people died in car accidents and neither crash was a hit-and-run as Peters claims. 

In August 2022, Peters crowdfunded a failed recount in her bid to become Colorado’s secretary of state. Despite raising $351,000 with the help of Steve Bannon, the recount still showed her losing the Republican primary by 88,000 votes, which Peters still claims was stolen from her.