Tina Peters, the former Mesa County, Colorado, clerk, falsely claimed Donald Trump lost the 2020 election to President Joe Biden due to ballot fraud.
  • 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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  • King3d@lemmy.world
    4·
    1 month ago

    What Tina Peters did is clearly immoral. She tampered with voting equipment and spread lies about election fraud, which directly undermines trust in democracy. I don’t care if she thought she was doing the right thing. Breaking laws meant to protect elections is not just wrong, it’s dangerous.

    • RedditRefugee69@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
      13·
      1 month ago

      I agree with this comment, but it wasn’t the basis of your earlier comment. You’re accidentally or intentionally moving the goal posts because you want to fight and you want to be right at any cost.