The trial against a former Colorado elections clerk over her efforts combating election fraud is set to begin on Monday.
Tina Peters, who served as Mesa County Clerk and Recorder from January 2019 to January 2023, is being prosecuted by the Colorado Attorney General’s Office on seven charges, including felonies, related to alleged election tampering, official misconduct, and attempting to influence public servants in 2021. She is accused of allowing an unauthorized third party to make copies of voting machine hard drives, which led to “confidential digital images” of Dominion Voting Systems property and passwords to be “published on the internet,” prosecutors asserted.
Peters (pictured above) ended up a target of officials after making a backup of Mesa County’s Dominion server. She said she believed she found evidence of manipulation in a 2021 local city council election and the 2020 general election. Four progressive candidates for Mesa City Council won their races, which was a surprise, she said, even to the candidates since that area is 65 percent Republican and 35 percent Democrat.
According to an affidavit Peters submitted to the court on November 24, 2023, the controversy began when constituents alerted her to election anomalies that concerned her. At the same time, Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold instructed her to participate in installing a software update known as a “Trusted Build” on the Mesa County election management system (EMS).
After speaking with an employee of Dominion Election Systems, Peters said she learned that the upgrade “would delete the QR code system that allows the system to read certain ballots.” This was a concern since it would make it “impossible to verify” the results of the 2020 and 2021 elections. She said she confirmed this would happen with a Griswold staff member.
HLJ Editor Steve Abramowicz appeared on Mrs Peters' show last week https://frankspeech.com/Video/the-left-copes-and-seethes-while-trump-wins-hearts-and-minds
Additionally, Peters worried that the upgrade would violate state and federal law. Federal law requires preserving election records for 22 months after an election, and Colorado state law requires preservation for 25 months. Violation of the federal law is a crime.
Peters said she didn’t trust Griswold since she was a partisan Democrat whose office “collaborated” with a recall effort against Peters. She said it was legal to “engage a consultant to make a forensic image of the EMS server.” She said, “Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Beall admitted under oath in a different case involving a different county clerk that making a forensic image of an EMS server was legal at the time it was done.”
