Tag Archives: Tina Peters

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 …

The Colorado Times reports: Former Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters took her conspiracy promotion to a new level this week when she implied that law enforcement murdered two family members of her former staff members in order to compel them to testify against her. Appearing on Joe Oltmann’s far-right podcast, Peters falsely stated that the brothers of her former deputy …

The Associated Press reports: A former elections manager who prosecutors say assisted in a security breach of voting equipment in a Colorado county pleaded guilty on Wednesday under a plea agreement that requires her to testify against her former boss. Sandra Brown is one of two employees accused of helping Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters allow a copy of a …

The Daily Beast reports: MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell told The Daily Beast on Tuesday night that the FBI seized his cellphone while he was at a Hardee’s restaurant. Lindell also posted on social media a grand jury subpoena from a federal prosecutor in Colorado and what appears to be a search warrant related to a federal investigation into breached voting …

CBS News reports: A Colorado county clerk accused of allowing an unauthorized person to break into her county’s election system in search of proof of the conspiracy theories spun by former President Donald Trump pleaded not guilty to all charges in the case on Wednesday. Tina Peters entered her plea in Grand Junction before Judge Matthew Barrett, who scheduled a …

Grand Junction’s NBC affiliate reports: A district court judge has thrown out Tina Peters’ attempt to sue every other county clerk and recorder in the state, citing the fact that Peters did not take necessary action to stop the recount before the results were certified. Documents state that Peters lost the option to order a recount after votes were certified, …

The Colorado Sun reports: Indicted Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters’ deputy, Belinda Knisley, has agreed to cooperate with investigators and testify in court against her former boss as part of a plea deal announced Thursday by prosecutors. The deal represents a significant threat to Peters’ defense against felony charges stemming from a security breach of her county’s election system last …

Denver’s NBC affiliate reports: Tina Peters, embattled Mesa County Clerk & Recorder and former Secretary of State candidate, has been denied travel to a summit by District Attorney Dan Rubinstein. As the defendant of an ongoing criminal trial, Peters is required by law to submit a request to travel out of state to the district court. Peters had previously ignored …

Denver’s NBC affiliate reports: The chair of Mesa County’s GOP says indicted Mesa County Court Clerk Tina Peters isn’t listening to his call for her to step down. Peters faces accusations she tampered with election results. That means she can’t work at the county in her current elected position. But Peters is still on the taxpayer payroll at $93,000 a …

The Denver Post reports: A recount of votes in the GOP primary for Colorado secretary of state shows what election officials knew to be true from the first round of counting: Tina Peters, an election denier, did not come close to winning her primary election. The results reiterated what county clerks initially reported: Peters lost the election by more than …

The Associated Press reports: Election conspiracy theorist and Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters will get a recount after all, Colorado officials announced today, now that Peters has raised $256,000 to pay for the review of her loss in the Republican primary for secretary of state. But she did not pay the $236,000 the Secretary of State’s office initially charged, insisting …

The Colorado Newsline reports: An arrest warrant was issued Thursday for indicted Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters after she allegedly violated a protection order and her bond conditions by contacting an employee of the Mesa County elections division. The warrant alleges that Peters sent an email on Wednesday to Mesa County Elections Director Brandi Bantz — with whom she is …

The Associated Press reports: It was no shock that state Rep. Ron Hanks and Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters handily lost their recent Republican primaries in Colorado for U.S. Senate and secretary of state. Hanks was outspent 14-to-1 by his rival. Peters, who was vying to become Colorado’s top elections official, had been indicted on seven felony charges alleging she …