Q Crackpot gets 9 years. "I'm not a criminal and I don't deserve to go into a prison where other people have committed heinous crimes."
Judge, unsurprisingly, disagreed. The irony of her committing election fraud in her mentally-deranged attempt to prove election fraud is quite something.
Peters was convicted of three counts of attempting to influence a public servant, one count of conspiracy to commit criminal impersonation, first-degree official misconduct, violation of duty, and failing to comply with the secretary of state," the Associated Press
wrote at the time.
After the conviction, Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold
said that "
Tina Peters willfully compromised her own election equipment trying to prove Trump's big lie. She has been found guilty by a jury of her peers and will now face the consequences of her actions."
In October 2021, Peters was
barred from supervising elections due to the leak of voting-system BIOS passwords to QAnon conspiracy theorist Ron Watkins. At the time, Mesa County District Court Judge Valerie Robison detailed how Peters brought a man into a meeting on a "trusted build" software update that is meant to ensure a secure chain of custody for the voting system.
During that meeting, video and photos were taken of a laptop that displayed passwords, which were later posted to an online social media site. Mesa County data was also leaked to Mike Lindell, the MyPillow CEO who spread false claims that the 2020 election was stolen from Trump.
"Some of the facts in the case have never been disputed,
Peters admits that in May 2021, she used the identity of a Fruita man named Gerald Wood to give a different man—Conan Hayes, a self-described data expert from California—access to county voting equipment, both to copy its hard drive and a few days later to attend a secure update of the machine's software. Hayes is a retired surfer with ties to Lindell and his campaign of spreading falsehoods about the country's election system."
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Video of sentencing is quite interesting for a foreigner like me: