A former Colorado county clerk has been sentenced to nine years behind bars for leading a scheme to breach voting system data in her county

A former Colorado county clerk has been sentenced to nine years behind bars for leading a scheme to breach voting system data in her county

A judge sentenced a former Colorado county clerk to nine years behind bars Thursday for leading a voting system data-breach scheme inspired by the rampant false claims that fraud altered the 2020 presidential outcome.

Judge Matthew Barrett handed down the sentence after jurors found Tina Peters guilty in August for allowing a man to misuse a security card to access to the Mesa County election system and for being deceptive about that person’s identity.

The man was affiliated with My Pillow chief executive Mike Lindell, a prominent promoter of false claims that voting machines were manipulated to steal the election from Trump.

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    Her mugshot should be representing these articles. Here: Tina Peters Tina Peters Convicted Election Fraudster

    Here’s some illuminating quotes too:

    In court on Thursday, Peters told the judge she was “very taken back by how awful I’ve been depicted when I was just trying to do my job.” In return, Judge Barrett said Peters was "as defiant of a defendant as this court has ever seen.”

    and

    “She undermined the security of her own office. She brought somebody into the office using credentials that weren’t their own. She turned off her cameras to her election area, which had been on nonstop, continuously for 10 years. She allowed the image of her election software to go out into the public where bad actors can study that, look for vulnerabilities and do nefarious things if they get actual physical access to the components," Crane said. “I don’t think people realize just how serious the nature of her crimes really are." –Matt Crane, executive director of the Colorado County Clerks Association

    From here: https://www.denver7.com/news/politics/former-clerk-believes-tina-peters-case-illuminates-the-influence-of-election-denial-rhetoric