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Column: She’s going to prison for Trump’s Big Lie. Others should pay heed
Los Angeles Times ^ | Oct. 8, 2024 3 AM PT | Mark Z. Barabak

Posted on 10/08/2024 1:39:48 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

Chances are you’ve never heard of Tina Peters. It’s worth taking a moment to get to know her.

Peters used to be the elections chief in Mesa County, Colo., a slice of rugged beauty perched on the state’s Western Slope.

After the 2020 election, Peters fell in with the tinfoil-hat crowd promoting the phony claim the presidential race was stolen from Donald Trump. In furtherance of that fallacy, Peters allowed an unauthorized person to access voting equipment as part of a crackpot scheme to gather “proof” that Mesa County’s voting machines were rigged.

They weren’t.

But Peters’ conniving made her a celebrity in the upside-down universe that is MAGA world. She jetted around the country as a wingman for Mike Lindell, the My Pillow guy and feather-headed spouter of election-denying nonsense. Trump hailed Peters as “a rock star” for helping further spread his corrosive claptrap.

Finally, in August, Peters’ duplicity caught up with her. She was convicted of seven criminal counts related to the breach of election security and her deceptive actions surrounding the incident. Last week a judge threw not just the book but multiple volumes at the unrepentant former county clerk, rejecting pleas for leniency and sentencing Peters to a whopping nine years in prison.

“You’re as defiant ... a defendant at this court has ever seen,” Judge Matthew Barrett said in a tone of righteous anger. Unlike those unfortunate souls that sometimes land in his courtroom, “You are as privileged as they come,” he told the 69-year-old Peters, “and you used that privilege to obtain power, a following and fame.”

“You are no hero,” he went on. “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...

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To: E. Pluribus Unum

If you’re not allowed a defense, of course you’re going to prison.


21 posted on 10/08/2024 2:12:59 PM PDT by roving (Deplorable Erectionists Listless Vessel )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

later


22 posted on 10/08/2024 2:16:45 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Import The Third World,Become The Third World)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I think the crime was allowing others to copy data. It had nothing to do with chasing a phantom. It has to do with not securing your team, and teaching them what to do, and what NOT to do. Those who leaked info, were witnesses against her as they were given plea deals.


23 posted on 10/08/2024 2:22:57 PM PDT by Glad2bnuts (“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: We should have set up ambushes...paraphrased)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Last week a judge threw not just the book but multiple volumes at the unrepentant former county clerk, rejecting pleas for leniency and sentencing Peters to a whopping nine years in prison.

Nine years?! Good Lord! Murderers get less.\.

24 posted on 10/08/2024 2:27:46 PM PDT by Rummyfan ( In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
"Tina's heinous crime? Backing up a voting machine's log file before Democrat election officials could illegally delete it."


25 posted on 10/08/2024 2:29:34 PM PDT by clearcarbon (Fraudulent elections have consequences.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Political prisoner who Trump should pardon in January as with all political prisoners.


26 posted on 10/08/2024 2:31:37 PM PDT by kenmcg (ti hi o)
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To: Kid Shelleen
"what made me believe Trump was right were the left wing reactionaries who want to jail anyone that challenges the election results."

...and every day since then.
27 posted on 10/08/2024 2:31:53 PM PDT by clearcarbon (Fraudulent elections have consequences.)
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To: CodeToad
If Trump cared about the 2020 election he would get elected then immediately prosecute the State for this and get her out of prison.

The scales aren't balanced until that Judge and Prosecutor are sent to prison.

We need to go Joseph Stalin on these bastards.

28 posted on 10/08/2024 2:35:15 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Her persecutors and the Los Angeles Times should share Beria’s fate.


29 posted on 10/08/2024 2:35:25 PM PDT by Navy Patriot (Celebrate Decivilization)
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To: Glad2bnuts
I think the crime was allowing others to copy data.

So much for "transparency."

The log files ought to be publicly available information, unless they have something to hide.

I wonder what they are hiding?

30 posted on 10/08/2024 2:35:50 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is █████ ██ ████ ████ ████ █ ███████ ████. FJB.)
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To: kenmcg
Political prisoner who Trump should pardon in January as with all political prisoners.

State crime. He can't do anything about it other than pick someone to head the Justice department that might initiate an investigation to see if that Judge and Prosecutor have broken any federal laws, then make sure the full force of "the Law" comes down on them.

I'm betting they can find some federal laws they broke.

31 posted on 10/08/2024 2:38:10 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

Those two Negro women won a judgment of $148M against Rudy Giuliani for calling them out on their activity.

We sure gots justice in this America!

MAGA


32 posted on 10/08/2024 2:40:17 PM PDT by rx
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To: rx
Preposterous amount of money! South Africa West. This is what happens when the jungle takes over.

33 posted on 10/08/2024 2:55:27 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is gracious, and His mercy endureth forever. — Psalm 106)
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To: MileHi

>> She’s going to prison because the judge is a dem political hack.

She’ll win on appeal because the judge is a Rat political hack.

The judge will pay a steep price for his injustice.


34 posted on 10/08/2024 2:59:41 PM PDT by Nervous Tick ("First the Saturday people, then the Sunday people...": ISLAM is the problem!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

(Tina’s heinous crime? Backing up a voting machine’s log file before Democrat election officials could illegally delete it.)

America is nearly lost.......


35 posted on 10/08/2024 3:15:34 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Tina Peters is a Gold Star Mom and an Election Integrity Patriot..~Kari Lake .. the only people who go to jail for election fraud are the ones who expose the election fraud.

The prosecution would not let in any affirmative defenses... The jury was not given exculpatory and vital evidence.


36 posted on 10/08/2024 3:16:38 PM PDT by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

That’s because demonrats are hypocrites of the worst order.


37 posted on 10/08/2024 3:25:47 PM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: MileHi

The judge looks and sounds like a kiddie-diddling faggot, #InMyOpinion.


38 posted on 10/08/2024 3:51:48 PM PDT by ponygirl (Stay gold.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

What Tina Peters did has nothing to do with Trump and everything to do with following both Federal and CO state law requiring, let me repeat that word, requiring her to secure the ballot information.

It’s not her fault that Dominion deleted 29,000 files after she made the backup and it’s not her fault that Jena Griswold is a criminal who is working with Dominion.


39 posted on 10/08/2024 3:57:07 PM PDT by TigersEye (Steve Bannon is a political prisoner. Free Steve Bannon!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
this has me seething.

she is in jail for doing the job duties she could be put in jail for NOT doing.

it is a fed requirement to preserve the cast vote record for 22 months.

the domestic enemies went around the country.erasing these records.

this, plus the fema domestic enemies in the hurricane area , that are pirating/stealing private releif supplies

are an act of civil war imho.

these fed domestic enemies are waging defacto civil war on the citizens.

tina in jail is a gut punch

im glad every one involved in these injustices will burn for ever in hell.

forever.

40 posted on 10/08/2024 3:58:23 PM PDT by cuz1961
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