- Former Mesa County, Colorado, clerk Tina Peters was sentenced to nine years in prison for crimes related to a breach of her county’s voting system.
- Peters espoused the false conspiracy theory that Donald Trump lost the 2020 election to President Joe Biden due to ballot fraud.
- She was accused of allowing access to the voting system to an expert affiliated with My Pillow CEO Mike Lindell, a leading proponent of the Trump election conspiracy theory.
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Allowed access to the voting system as in to investigate or as in to tamper? One is hopefully unnecessary but harmless and one is obviously worthy of prison time, in my opinion.
It is a shame that the article doesn’t have those details.
Oh wait, it does!
Peters, 68, was convicted by a trial jury in August of seven criminal counts, including attempt to influence a public servant, conspiracy to commit criminal impersonation, violation of duty, and failure to comply with secretary of state requirements.
She was accused of using another person’s security badge to allow someone else to gain access to her county’s election system.
The person who used that badge was affiliated with Mike Lindell, the CEO of My Pillow and a leading proponent of the claim that Trump’s defeat for a second term was due to ballot fraud.
There is no reason for this kind of access except to tamper, because the system is formally audited by people who don’t have to sneak in through illegal access.
Thanks for summing it up for me and no thanks for the hostility! Reminds me of Reddit, so I feel right at home.
Yep, she should be in prison.
I’m sick of people trying to pretend like the people trying to interfere with elections would have some kind of non-malicious intent.
Also I was being snarky, not hostile. Words mean things.
She was not authorised to allow access, whatever the reason. You don’t get to break the law just because you think you have a reason.
Regardless, it was to tamper (or to find a way to tamper, more specifically).
I’m not on board with the Law = Morality argument and I doubt you are.
Gandhi? Rosa Parks? MLK? Would you tell them they shouldn’t have broken the law just because they think they have a reason?
Get a grip. It’s absolutely crazy to compare Tina Peters to MLK Jr., Rosa Parks, or Gandhi. These people fought against deep systemic injustice, risking their lives for civil rights and freedom. Peters’ actions, spreading lies tied to election denial and abuse of power, don’t come close to that level of sacrifice or historical importance. Trying to equate the two is a huge stretch and undermines the legacy of true leaders who changed the world for the better.
From what I gathered in the article, she wasn’t allowed access. She stole someone else’s access card to get in. So, worthy of prison time absolutely.
Yeah I’m very much against that but not nearly as against the idea of transparency in voting.
The obvious drawback being it could affect the anonymity of voting, which is an essential cornerstone to healthy democracies.
