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A former Colorado county clerk and one-time hero to election conspiracists is set to be sentenced Thursday for leading a data-breach scheme inspired by the rampant false claims that voting fraud altered the result of the 2020 presidential race.

A jury found Tina Peters guilty of most charges against her in August for orchestrating the security breach of her elections computer system.

Peters was convicted for allowing a county security card to be misused to give a man affiliated with My Pillow chief executive Mike Lindell access to the Mesa County election system and for deceiving other officials about that person’s identity.

  • IamSparticles@lemmy.zipEnglish
    44·
    3 months ago

    Yet again, the people who keep getting caught trying to commit election fraud are the very people who claim to be most concerned that election fraud is going on.

  • skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de
    23·
    3 months ago

    Delicious! She went on a 45 minute rant including a PowerPoint. Interrupted the judge throughout. Like, does she think she can filibuster out of jail time? Judge came back with a laundry list of, “this is what you did and I believe you’d do it again, have 9 years.”

    She even claimed she couldn’t stay in jail because she needs her special magnetic mattress. We’re talking proper crazy here.

    Hopefully this helps teach other crazy a lesson, even if she (likely) never learns it herself.

    • rc__buggy@sh.itjust.works
      6·
      3 months ago

      Assuming she doesn’t have any real pre-trial detention she’s probably going to do 40 months, then be on parole for the balance.