Former Mesa County Clerk and gold-star mother Tina Peters was sentenced to a total of 9 years in Colorado on October 3, 2024 after she was convicted on 7 out of 10 charges surrounding her forensic imaging of her county’s Dominion tabulators.
She was charged with three counts of attempting to influence a public servant, one count of conspiracy to commit criminal impersonation, first-degree official misconduct, violation of duty, and failing to comply with the Secretary of State.
The charges were levied against her after she decided to create a forensic image of the Dominion tabulators in her possession prior to the Secretary of State’s office conducting a “Trusted Build” following a 2021 municipal election.
Under federal and state law, election records are to be preserved for at least 22 months (52 USC 20701). Peters had another image made following the “Trusted Build.”
BREAKING: Former Mesa, CO Clerk and Election Patriot Tina Peters Found Guilty on 7 of 10 Charges
While the case is a state case and thus offers the federal government no opportunity to issue a pardon, the Department of Justice under Attorney General Pam Bondi has thrown itself into the ring. Today, the Justice Department filed a Statement of Interest.
BREAKING: The DOJ just filed a statement of interest in Tina Peters’s case. Peters is a gold star mom & the former Election Clerk of Mesa County, Colorado, who got locked up for exposing the massive vulnerabilities in Dominion voting machines.
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The Statement of Interest from the DOJ reads:
Ms. Peters is currently incarcerated while pursuing a direct appeal of her underlying nonviolent convictions and combined nine-year sentence.
The application explains that Ms. Peters suffers from serious health issues and that, while incarcerated, her physical and mental health have deteriorated. Reasonable concerns have been raised about various aspects of Ms. Peters’ case.
These concerns relate to, among other things, the exceptionally lengthy sentence imposed relative to the conduct at issue, the First Amendment implications of the trial court’s October 2024 assertions related to Ms. Peters, and whether Colorado’s denial of bail pending appeal was arbitrary or unreasonable under the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments such that §2254 relief is appropriate.
Accordingly, the United States respectfully submits that the concerns raised in the Application warrant – at the very least – prompt and careful consideration by this Court (and, at the appropriate time, the Colorado appellate courts).
Parallel to these proceedings and Ms. Peters’ direct appeal, the Department of Justice is reviewing cases across the nation for abuses of the criminal justice process…
This review will include an evaluation of the State of Colorado’s prosecution of Ms. Peters and, in particular, whether the case was “oriented more toward inflicting political pain than toward pursuing actual justice or legitimate governmental objectives.”
During the trial, part of the accusations levied against Peters involved publishing passwords online for the Dominion systems in her county.
The passwords she posted were not only redacted in the video published, but they were also changed as per the standard procedures of a Trusted Build. There was absolutely no value to the password segments included in said video.
On the contrary, Secretary of State Jena Griswold’s office was discovered to have posted almost the entirety of the State’s BIOS passwords on their own website for several months prior to the 2024 Presidential Election.
These passwords were not only unredacted, but were the current passwords for the upcoming election.
Griswold’s office attempted to cover up the password leak from the media.
The Gateway Pundit previously published an article outlining the difference between Peters’ insubstantial leak and Griswold’s disastrous posting of live passwords.
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