Posted on 10/03/2024 12:47:42 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Tina Peters, a former county election official in Colorado, was sentenced Thursday to 8½ years in prison and six months in jail after being found guilty of charges connected to efforts to copy election data from her office as Donald Trump and his allies spread false claims that the 2020 election was stolen and searched for evidence to prove it.
Judge Matthew Barrett, who presided over the sentencing, also ordered Peters, the former Mesa County clerk, to pay thousands of dollars in fines.
Peters, who had asked for probation, emphasized earlier in Thursday’s sentencing that maintaining her innocence was not a form of disrespect of the law, saying, “I’m not a criminal, and I don’t deserve to go to a prison where other people committed heinous crimes.”
But in his sentencing decision, Barrett said Peters used her privilege “to obtain power, a following and fame.”
“You are no hero, you abused your position, and you’re a charlatan who used and is still using your prior position in office to peddle a snake oil that’s been proven to be a snake oil time and time again,” the judge remarked before handing down the sentence.
In August, a Colorado jury found Peters guilty on seven of 10 charges, including several counts of attempting to influence a public servant and conspiracy to commit criminal impersonation.
Prosecutors charged Peters in 2022 and accused her of helping to secretly copy Dominion Voting Systems hard drives by sneaking Conan Hayes, a former professional surfer and purported computer expert, into secure areas of her office in 2021 using someone else’s security badge. Within months, data from her office appeared online and was featured at a symposium held by Mike Lindell, the MyPillow chief executive who continues to trumpet false...
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I watched the Substack podcast. They baited Peters thinking she was saving democracy, encouraged her actions, and then pulled the rug out from under her when the time was right.
At the very worst, she was guilty of acting on what she thought was best intentions with no zero intent to violate federal election law.
She’s the latest victim of January 6.
To me it is proof that anyone who believes that abortion to the moment of birth is OK has no conscience. We cannot expect anything of them that has any relationship to morality
When will Hillary Clinton and Al Gore be charged?
WaPo bias
“...as Donald Trump and his allies spread false claims that the 2020 election was stolen and searched for evidence to prove it.”
jail is County, prison is State/FED...
Wow.
Comments at WAPO following this article are so ignorant. How do we share space with these people?
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She will remain in Mesa County Detention Facility for the first 6 months, and then be transferred to DOC for the remainder of the time. DOC will place her in a prison facility.
Friggin’ Nazi gestapo is infesting all of our courts. They are a joke.
The judge’s name and home address should be plastered all over the internet.
“We are now a Communist Nation.”
Yep, did anyone believe that in 2024 we would have thousands of political prisoners in jails across the USA?
The worst part is that no one cares. People should be out in the streets, but all of us juts sit at home and whine on the internet.
And Republican cowards say nothing.
What do you expect? We have our important priorities. The ballgame or reality show is on.
“And Republican cowards say nothing.”
They are not actually cowards because they don’t see anything wrong with it n the first place, They are worse, they are in on the steal also and just as guilty.
Have a banana, anybody? The America hating Obozo is laughing.
WaPo must have a copy if they’re absolutely certain the claims are false.
Tina comes across as a kook. Claiming she can’t serve time because she needs a magnetic mattress to sleep on and they don’t have those in prison.
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