Tina Peters: Free at Last?

American Thinker ^ | 19 Jan, 2026 | Joe Fried

[MtnClimber]

e know that Democrat politicians and judges can be vicious and corrupt, but with regard to Tina Peters, they outdid themselves.

Tina Peters has been sitting in a Colorado state prison since October 2024.

During the 2020 election, Tina Peters was the top election official in Mesa County Colorado. In October 2024, the 70-year-old widow was sentenced to nine years in prison by District Court Judge Matthew Barrett. Given the lengthy sentence, you might think that Peters molested a child, pushed someone onto a subway track, or stole $50,000 from a Mesa County bank. You’d be wrong. To Colorado Democrats, her crimes were much more serious. They included:

Accurately exposing enormous errors in two consecutive county elections Expressing her view that America’s election controls were too weak What Tina Peters did and what she found

Basically, Peters made a copy of the county election database and put it into the hands of two data experts -- Walter Daugherity and Jeffrey O’Donnell. For making the copy and giving it to the data experts, Peters was charged with several felonies and misdemeanors.

During her trial, the Peters defense team produced an 87-page report that had been prepared by Daugherity and O’Donnell. In great detail, the report irrefutably proved that the county’s election data base had been, in some unknown manner, downloaded and materially altered in two consecutive elections -- the November 2020 election and a local election held during the following spring. Here is the central claim of the report. It has never been disputed by anyone -- before, during, or after the trial:

“There was an unauthorized creation of new election databases during early voting in the 2020 General Election on October 21, 2020, followed by the digital reloading of 20,346 ballot records into the new election databases,

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TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: colorado; election; electionfraud; electionintegrity; fraud; hopenot; leftism; mesacounty; peters; riggedelection; stolenelection; tina; tinapeters; votefraud; voterfraud; votingfraud

[MtnClimber]

Something funny has been going on in Colorado elections for years. In the 2012 presidential election there were 10 Colorado counties that had more votes than registered voters. The county I lived in at the time was one of them.

[Aevery_Freeman]

As an election judge with years of experience as an programmer, I found this case chilling.

When asked to once again be an election judge, I declined.

Not going to risk it!

[Flavious_Maximus]

Matthew Barrett is the one who should be in prison, along with Jena Griswold.

But as so often happens in history, the worst evil scumbags get away with crimes and atrocities. I predict both Barrett and Griswold will receive a painful terminal disease, a fitting reward for their service to Satan. /spit

[Track9]

Something very wrong with Colorado elections. They went moonbat faster than any state in the union. From red to crazy in 10 years. From TABOR amendment to potheads everywhere.

[Thank You Rush]

“”Matthew Barrett is the one who should be in prison, along with Jena Griswold.””

Definitely the judge should be...but who is Griswold? I don’t see any mention of that person in the article...

[bankwalker]

what year did they become the first state to legalize pot and host the DNC convention?

[butterdezillion]

State SOS. The one who SHOULD have been doing what Peters did but instead ordered Peters to be prosecuted for keeping her oath.

[sauropod]

Bkmk

[bert]

Actually, the election fraudsters should be dead.

They have torn asunder the fabric that is the essence oF America. They do not need to still be alive as functioning enemise

[Mlheureux]

The DOJ better get their asses in gear on this one. The evidence is there MOVE! That means you, Bondi.

[MtnClimber]

Colorado legalized medical marijuana in 2000

Colorado legalized recreational marijuana in 2012

Denver hosted the Democratic National Convention in 2008

[Thank You Rush]

Thanks...Definitely a woman (Peters) with lots of grit. She did what she did, fully understanding the ramifications and was willing to stand behind her work. She should be next in line for the Presidential Medal of Freedom - well deserved and hopefully as a free woman...

[Georgia Girl 2]

Well, the conviction will likely be overturned as the 3 judge panel really gave it to the prosecutor as to why the case was even brought forward in the first place.

But it will be weeks or several months before they get around to handing down the decision and Tina is sick So please pray for her.

[MCSETots]

Heck, you almost suspect the judge and prosecution might have something to hide . . .

[HIDEK6]

They went moonbat faster than any state in the union.

I visited Colorado in 1972. Fairly normal.

Again I visited in 1996. You could smell the commie, then.

[RandallFlagg]

ping

[RandallFlagg]

Jena Griswold handed my beloved state to the commies.
In the 2020 election when someone whispered the word, “Recount,” she immediately forbade recounts statewide. That act was quite revealing to the Trump voters here. She was desperate to hide something, and it was obvious.

[george76]

Colorado Ping ( Let me know if you wish to be added or removed from the list.)

[oldplayer]

I was a Texas-based geologist and rented an apartment in Denver in the early ‘80’s. I used it a week or so every month. I unknowingly had rented in the “gay” part of town. I was propositioned only a couple of times.

Even with that, Denver was still reasonably “normal” then, especially compared to Boulder. It is completely wacko now, and that’s not even discussing I-25!

Free Tina Peters!