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A Colorado county clerk was sentenced to nine years in prison Thursday after spearheading a data breach scheme in the 2020 presidential election. District Judge Matthew Barrett sparred with former ...
Tina Peters, a former Colorado county clerk who promoted 2020 election conspiracy theories, was sentenced in connection with a security breach of Mesa County’s voting system.
Tina Peters was convicted at trial of seven counts of engaging in a security breach for opening Mesa County, Colorado’s election computers to Trump allies searching for evidence of fraud.
[93] [64] The court sentenced Peters to four months of house arrest for this misdemeanor, during which she was ordered to wear an ankle monitor, fined $786.35, and ordered to perform 120 hours of community service, which she planned to appeal. [94] [95] Sandra Brown began her 30-day sentence for the misdemeanor of official misconduct.
In Mesa County — a scenic, mostly rural area on the Colorado Western Slope known for its peaches, vineyards and mountain biking as well as oil and gas drilling — Peters' actions have cost the local government $1.4 million in legal fees and lost employee time, County Commissioner Cody Davis estimated at the sentencing hearing. Also Peters ...
Former Colorado county clerk Tina Peters sentenced to 9 years for voting data scheme By MEAD GRUVER Associated Press A judge excoriated a Colorado county clerk for her crimes and lies before sentencing her Thursday to nine years behind bars for a data-breach scheme spawned from the rampant false claims about voting machine fraud in the 2020 ...
On October 3, 2024, Peters was sentenced to a total of 9 years in prison, with the first 6 months of her sentence to be served in the Mesa County Detention Facility, and the remaining 8.5 years to be served in the Colorado Department of Corrections. Peters was also fined a total of $3,000. [19]
A jury found Tina Peters guilty of most charges against her in August for orchestrating the security breach of her elections computer system. He ordered her to serve 8.5 years in the Department of ...