The Daily Populous Wednesday August 14th, 2024 morning edition
Authored by rollingstone.com and submitted by rollingstone

Election-conspiracy theorist Tina Peters has been convicted of tampering with voting machines in Mesa County, Colorado, in the aftermath of the 2020 election. On Monday, Peters was found guilty of seven charges related to her efforts to grant unauthorized individuals access to county voting machines in order to prove false claims that the election had been fraudulently stolen from Donald Trump.

In March, Peters pleaded not guilty to 10 criminal charges, including seven felonies, in connection to a scheme to use her position as Mesa County clerk to transfer voting data from the machines to allies of former President Trump. She resigned from her role as Mesa County clerk in 2023.

Peters’ sentencing is scheduled to take place on Oct. 3.

“This community has suffered greatly from the dishonesty, lack of transparency, and refusal of Ms. Peters to take accountability,” Mesa County District Attorney Daniel P. Rubinstein said in response to the verdict. “No single elected official, or even branch of government, is above the law or should be allowed to act without those checks and balances.”

Despite the criminal charges against her, Peters has spent the past several years unsuccessfully attempting to leverage her status as a martyr for Trump’s election-conspiracy theories to gain additional political power within Colorado.

In 2022, Peters came third in the Republican primary for Colorado secretary of state, the role that oversees the state’s elections. Unsurprisingly, Peters accused election officials of having cheated her of the nomination and refused to concede her primary loss.

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On Monday, Peters responded to her conviction on X, formerly Twitter, writing that she was “taking a day off to grieve for the people that have been hurt by Dominion brand voting systems and the Secretary of State’s attorneys’ actions to steal their vote and their voice.”

“This is a sad day for our nation and the world. But we WILL win in the end,” she added, tagging fellow conspiracy theorists Alex Jones, Mike Lindell, and Elon Musk in her post.

QanonQuinoa on August 13rd, 2024 at 17:26 UTC »

She was posting on Twitter last night blaming Dominion for her guilty verdict and doubling down on election interference. I hope the judge throws the book at her for her sentencing.

Edit: including the X post since this gained some steam. Not going to link it so as not to give X unnecessary traffic. Wouldn’t want to crash “DDOS” Musk’s fragile servers.

> I’m taking a day off to grieve for the people that have been hurt by Dominion brand voting systems and the Secretary of State’s attorneys actions to steal their vote and their voice. I will continue to fight until the Truth is revealed that was not allowed to be brought during this trial. This is a sad day for our nation and the world. But we WILL win in the end. Keep the faith and continue to pray. Galatians 6:9 …let us not be weary in welldoing, for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not. @RealAlexJones @elonmusk @BehizyTweets @yehuda_miller TinaPeters.us @realMikeLindell @PatrickByrne

BrutalHunny on August 13rd, 2024 at 17:06 UTC »

See, proof the voting machines were tampered with.

SatiricLoki on August 13rd, 2024 at 17:04 UTC »

Why is it that every time there’s some kind of “irregularity” with voting or voting machines it’s a republican behind it? Aren’t they the ones who bitch moan and complain about election integrity?