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 six months in the Mesa County Detention Center for a total of nine years incarceration on Thursday.

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On Thursday, former county clerk in Colorado and election-denier Tina Peters was sentenced to nine years behind bars.

Old and new ballot boxes at the Summit County Clerk and Recorder’s Office in Breckenridge on Super Tuesday, March 5, 2024. Primary voters in Colorado and 15 other states pick their party’s candidates to run in the fall presidential election today. Election judges reported a quiet morning.

Peters was convicted for giving an individual affiliated with MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell, a Trump confidant, access to the election software she used for her county.

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

She was the first election official to be charged with a security breach amid unfounded conspiracies that widespread fraud denied President Donald Trump a second term.

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The former Mesa County clerk was ordered to serve eight and a half years in prison and six months in the county jail.