• Former Mesa County, Colorado, clerk Tina Peters was sentenced to nine years in prison for crimes related to a breach of her county’s voting system.
  • Peters espoused the false conspiracy theory that Donald Trump lost the 2020 election to President Joe Biden due to ballot fraud.
  • She was accused of allowing access to the voting system to an expert affiliated with My Pillow CEO Mike Lindell, a leading proponent of the Trump election conspiracy theory.

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    • snooggums@lemmy.world
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      7 hours ago

      It is a shame that the article doesn’t have those details.

      Oh wait, it does!

      Peters, 68, was convicted by a trial jury in August of seven criminal counts, including attempt to influence a public servant, conspiracy to commit criminal impersonation, violation of duty, and failure to comply with secretary of state requirements.

      She was accused of using another person’s security badge to allow someone else to gain access to her county’s election system.

      The person who used that badge was affiliated with Mike Lindell, the CEO of My Pillow and a leading proponent of the claim that Trump’s defeat for a second term was due to ballot fraud.

      There is no reason for this kind of access except to tamper, because the system is formally audited by people who don’t have to sneak in through illegal access.

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      She was not authorised to allow access, whatever the reason. You don’t get to break the law just because you think you have a reason.

      Regardless, it was to tamper (or to find a way to tamper, more specifically).