Tag Archives: Tina Peters

The New York Times reports: The Justice Department said on Monday that it would review the conviction of the former clerk of Mesa County, Colo., who was found guilty of state charges last summer of tampering with voting machines under her control in a failed attempt to prove that they had been used to rig the 2020 election against President …

Law & Crime reports: The first election official convicted of a felony over 2020 election conspiracy theories promulgated by followers of Donald Trump is appealing an earlier contempt of court ruling in a related case. Tina Peters, 68, is the former county clerk of Mesa County, Colorado. In August, she was convicted on seven counts of engaging in a security …

The Associated Press reports: A rural Colorado county courthouse beefed up security Friday after threats were made against staff and a judge who sentenced former county clerk Tina Peters to nearly nine years behind bars and admonished her for her role in a data breach scheme catalyzed by the lie that the 2020 election was stolen from former President Donald …

CNBC reports: Tina Peters, a former Colorado county clerk who espoused the false conspiracy theory that former President Donald Trump lost the 2020 election due to ballot fraud, was sentenced Thursday to nine years in prison for crimes related to a breach of voting systems in her county. Peters was immediately taken into custody after Judge Matthew Barrett rejected her …

Colorado Public Radio reports: Twelve Mesa County jurors found Tina Peters guilty of four felonies on Monday after a lengthy criminal trial, marking yet another conviction tied to post-2020 election conspiracy theories. Peters faced a total of 10 criminal charges related to her role in helping a man gain unauthorized access to voting equipment during a secure software update in …

The Associated Press reports: Prosecutors on Monday urged jurors to convict former Colorado clerk Tina Peters in a security breach of her county’s election computer system, saying she deceived government employees so she could work with outsiders affiliated with MyPillow chief executive Mike Lindell to become famous. In closing arguments at Tina Peters’ trial, prosecutor Janet Drake argued that the …

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 …

Colorado Public Radio reports: Tina Peters was worried early on that election material being posted online could put her in legal jeopardy, according to Belinda Knisley, her former chief deputy clerk who testified in court. “‘I’m f—ed,’” Knisley recalled the clerk telling her. “She said, ‘it’s on the internet, it was not supposed to be, and it’s out there.’” Knisley …

Wonkette reports: (Former) Mesa County, Colorado, Clerk and Recorder, certified wackadoo, and MyPillow pal Tina Peters is FINALLY going to trial, almost three years since her indictment on 10 criminal counts of conspiracy for a breach of Dominion voting machines. You know, the very kind of breach that she claimed anti-Trump forces were doing! Ricky Schroder (now “Rick”), the former …

The Washington Post reports: Patrick Byrne, who has funded efforts to undermine the results of the 2020 election, said in an online forum Thursday that law enforcement would face “a piano wire and a blowtorch” if they did not drop a case against an ally. Byrne, a former CEO of online retailer Overstock, used the phrase half a dozen times …

Courthouse News reports: Jury selection starts today in Tina Peters’ trial. The former elections officer faces three felony counts of attempting to influence a public servant, four felony counts related to impersonation and identity theft and three misdemeanor counts for official misconduct. Prosecutors say that in May 2021, Peters instructed her deputy clerk to turn off security cameras. She then …

Colorado Politics reports: A federal judge on Monday threw out an attempt by former Mesa County clerk Tina Peters to end an alleged criminal investigation of her for conduct related to election equipment tampering. Peters, a Republican who unsuccessfully ran for secretary of state in 2022 and GOP party chair in 2023, is set to face criminal trial in state …

From a January 2022 Daily Sentinel report: Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters is the subject of yet another lawsuit, but this time it’s from her ex-husband, Thomas Peters. The lawsuit, filed in Mesa County District Court in December, alleges that Tina Peters “through deceit and deception” initiated a quick-claim deed to transfer ownership of a home in the Spyglass Ridge …

The Colorado Sun reports: A federal judge Monday dismissed a lawsuit brought by former Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters that sought to bar authorities from prosecuting her on charges related to a 2021 security breach of her county’s election system. Peters, who faces trial next month on 10 counts in the alleged breach, filed the lawsuit in November seeking to …

Law & Crime reports: A former Republican clerk in Mesa County, Colorado, indicted in 2022 for official misconduct connected to her ill-fated attempt to prove that Dominion Voting Systems and its electronic voting machines stole the 2020 election from Donald Trump has filed a lawsuit in federal court against state officials and U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland, claiming she’s being …

The New York Times reports: Tina Peters, a Trump loyalist who was barred from overseeing elections in a Colorado county after her indictment on charges related to tampering with voting equipment, was sentenced on Monday to home detention after she was convicted in a separate obstruction case. Ms. Peters, the former clerk in Mesa County, was given four months of …

The Associated Press reports: The Colorado Republican Party selected a combative former state representative who promised to be a “wartime” leader as its new chairman, joining several other state GOPs this year that have elected far-right figures and election conspiracy theorists to their top posts. The move in Colorado comes as the party totters on the brink of political irrelevance …

The Denver Post reports: A jury made up of four women and two men, found former Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters guilty of obstruction of a government operation. Peters was convicted on a misdemeanor obstruction charge for refusing to turn over an iPad she allegedly used to videotape a court hearing. The charge has a mandatory sentence of up to …

The Associated Press reports: In a basement event space in the Denver suburb of Parker, Tina Peters surveyed a crowd of Colorado Republicans last week and made an unusual pitch for why she should become Chair of their beleaguered party: “There’s no way a jury of 12 people is going to put me in prison.” Peters was referring to her …

The Denver Post reports: At least six people — including indicted former Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters and two former Congressional candidates — are vying to become the next chair of the Colorado Republican Party, three months after an Election Day beating sank the party to a historic nadir. Peters’s candidacy comes less than a year after she lost a …