With her pleas of leniency denied, former Mesa County Clerk and Recorder Tina Peters was sentenced to nine years for her role in a data breach scheme linked to the 2020 presidential election. “I’m convinced you would do it all over again if you could.

A former Colorado county clerk convicted of illegally tampering with voting machines was sentenced to nine years in prison on Thursday after repeating Donald Trump’s false claims of voter fraud in the 2020 U.

I am convinced you would do it all over again if you could,” the judge told her in handing down the sentence. “You’re as defiant as any defendant this court has ever seen.”

Former Colorado county clerk Tina Peters has been sentenced to 9 years behind bars for voting system data scheme

Former Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters was sentenced to 8-and-a-half years in prison and additional time to be served in the Mesa County Detention Center for a total of nine years incarceration on Thursday.

Tina Peters, a former county clerk in Colorado who was found guilty in connection with an election security breach at her office in 2021, drew a nine-year prison sentence during a court appearance Thursday.

Election officials from all around Colorado reacted to the sentencing of former Mesa County clerk Tina Peters, who was sentenced to nine years behind bars on Thursday for tampering in the 2020 presidential election.